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Elon Musk's xAI faced internal backlash after Grok's antisemitic posts. Workers demanded answers — and one said they would quit.
The company told workers to download employee tracking software on their personal computers, prompting privacy concerns from some staff.
The latest executive departures also underscore Musk’s complicated relationship with the sales functions at his companies. He’s the ultimate salesman of the future vision. But he tends to churn through sales leaders responsible for moving today’s inventories—whether that’s ad spots or electric sedans.
xAI claims that a change on Monday, July 7th, “triggered an unintended action” that added an older series of instructions to its system prompts telling it to be “maximally based,” and “not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”
Elon Musk's plans to ship an overseas power plant to Memphis for an xAI supercomputer raise both interest and environmental concerns.
The Indian-origin head of infrastructure engineering at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has resigned to join OpenAI.
Built using huge amounts of computing power at a Tennessee data center, Grok is Musk's attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in building an AI assistant that shows its reasoning before answering a question.
The unusual behavior of Grok 4, the AI model that Musk's company xAI released late Wednesday, has surprised some experts.