Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

Elon Musk is dismantling the founding team of xAI just months after launching the venture as his answer to OpenAI, signaling deepening trouble with an ambitious coding project that was supposed to demonstrate his artificial intelligence prowess. The departures underscore a pattern of internal turmoil at Musk's AI startup that contradicts his public claims of rapid progress and suggest the company may be struggling to deliver on promises that helped justify its multibillion-dollar valuation. With key founders now leaving and the company's flagship project faltering, questions are mounting about whether xAI can survive as an independent entity or will become another casualty of Musk's scattered attention across his sprawling business empire

Financial Times·17m ago