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xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team
Elon Musk's AI startup says it's shifting focus from generalist AI tutors to specialists.
These emails reportedly announce an immediate “strategic pivot,” with the company deciding to “accelerate the expansion and prioritization of our specialist AI tutors, while scaling back our focus on general AI tutor roles.” According to Business Insider, these cuts represent about one-third of xAI’s 1,500-person data annotation team — the team that works to label and prepare data used to train xAI’s chatbot Grok. When contacted for confirmation, xAI pointed to a statement on X(the Musk-owned social network that it acquired earlier this year) declaring that the company “will immediately surge our Specialist AI tutor team by 10x.”
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