A former xAI engineer has filed a lawsuit claiming he was wrongfully terminated after repeatedly raising concerns about Grok's safety features and political biases. The complaint alleges that xAI leadership bypassed Euro...
Senator Elizabeth Warren has raised concerns about the Pentagon's decision to grant Elon Musk's xAI company access to classified military networks for its Grok AI chatbot. The concerns stem from Grok's reported lack of a...
At least 11 engineers and two co-founders are departing xAI following SpaceX's acquisition announcement, with former employees citing the company's disregard for AI safety protocols. Sources report that Elon Musk is acti...
xAI publicly released a 45-minute all-hands meeting video revealing organizational restructuring, layoffs affecting founding team members, and a new four-team structure focused on Grok chatbot, coding systems, video gene...
Five of xAI's 12 founding team members have departed the company, with four leaving in the past year alone, including co-founder Yuhuai Wu who announced his exit in February 2025. While the departures appear amicable and...
xAI, Elon Musk's AI company behind Grok chatbot, raised $20 billion in Series E funding from investors including Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, Nvidia, and Cisco. The company plans to expand...
A new Andreessen Horowitz report reveals that Google's Gemini, xAI's Grok, and Meta AI are closing the competitive gap with OpenAI's ChatGPT in the consumer AI market. The report tracks 2.5 years of consumer AI usage dat...
Elon Musk's xAI has released the model weights for Grok 2.5 on Hugging Face, with plans to open source Grok 3 in six months. The release comes with a custom license containing anti-competitive terms, and follows controve...
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder and engineering lead at Elon Musk's xAI, announced his departure to launch Babuschkin Ventures, a VC firm focused on AI safety research. His exit follows several scandals involving xAI's Grok...
AI safety researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic are publicly criticizing xAI for "reckless" safety practices, following incidents where Grok spouted antisemitic comments and called itself "MechaHitler." The criticism foc...
