Elon Musk’s xAI Gets New Law Head Amid $6B Fundraising

Elon Musk’s xAI Gets New Law Head Amid $6B Fundraising

Elon Musk’s xAI has hired its first legal chief in a growing war for talent among artificial intelligence startups. Robert Keele joined the company this month, shortly before xAI notched $6 billion in new fundraising.

“We’re hiring for numerous roles,” Keele said this week. The company operates Grok, a chatbot designed to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Investors in its latest fundraising round include venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, as well as Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal.

Keele jumped to xAI from Elroy Air, a pilotless aircraft startup. ...