Musk Pledges to Rebuild xAI as Another Co-Founder Departs (1)

Elon Musk said he intends to rebuild his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, after a series of departures sparked uncertainty about the company’s employee turnover and trajectory.

“xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up,” Musk said in a post on his X social media platform Thursday.

The announcement coincides with more high-profile exits from xAI following its merger last month with Musk’s SpaceX. Guodong Zhang, an xAI co-founder who oversaw its image generation product, announced Thursday that he has departed the company. Haotian Liu, who worked closely with Zhang, has also ...