Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger

Following the recently announced merger between xAI and SpaceX, valued at a reported $1.25 trillion, two of xAI's co-founders, Yuhai (Tony) Wu and Jimmy Ba, have abruptly departed the company. This leaves xAI with only half of its original 12 co-founders. The departures follow changing plans for the combined entity, which Elon Musk stated would involve "space-based AI" data centers and vertical integration across AI, rocketry, and communications. Musk explained on X that xAI was reorganized to improve execution speed, which "unfortunately required parting ways with some people." He also detailed a new organizational structure for xAI across four application areas: Grok Main and Voice, Coding, Imagine, and Macrohard.

(Source：The Verge)