Even the ugliest feuds with President Donald Trump seem to end with the art of the deal. The U.S. government just inked a deal to put Elon Musk’s Grok AI inside federal agencies for 42 cents per agency—a bargain that the government called “unique” and could reset Musk’s rocky relationship with Trump and scramble the fight over which models dominate …
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Elon Musk’s xAI has reached an agreement with the U.S. government’s purchasing arm to sell its AI chatbot Grok to the federal government for under a dollar, pitting it against OpenAI and Anthropic. Under the agreement between xAI and the General Services Administration (GSA), federal agencies will be charged 42 cents to use xAI’s chatbot Grok for a year and …
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xAI laid off over 500 people responsible for training Grok. The Verge Elon Musk’s xAI startup lays off 500 employees in major reorganization San Francisco Chronicle xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team Yahoo Finance Leadership changes hit the xAI team training Grok, and some employees have been asked to explain their work Business Insider Musk’s xAI lays off hundreds of …
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Published on: Sept 14, 2025 08:41 am IST Elon Musk’s xAI laid off 500 workers from its data annotation team on Friday night. Elon Musk’s xAI laid off 500 workers from its data annotation team on Friday night. The data annotation team was tasked with training xAI’s generative AI chatbot, Grok. Elon Musk’s xAI has laid of at least 500 …
Read More »xAI has laid off at least 500 workers from its data annotation team, the company’s largest, according to Business Insider. The annotation team is in charge of categorizing and contextualizing raw data used to train Grok so that it can understand the world better. Business Insider says the laid off employees were informed via email on the evening of September …
Read More »Elon Musk‘s xAI laid off at least 500 workers on its data annotation team on Friday night. The company sent out emails notifying employees that it was planning to downsize its team of generalist AI tutors, according to multiple messages viewed by Business Insider. “After a thorough review of our Human Data efforts, we’ve decided to accelerate the expansion and prioritization of …
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After vowing to create a “maximum truth-seeking” AI, Elon Musk appears to now be sacking the people who built it for him. Slack screenshots leaked to Business Insider show that the accounts of at least nine high-level employees with the data annotation team at xAI, Musk’s OpenAI competitor, were deactivated over the weekend, in what seems like a major culling …
Read More »xAI doesn’t want its secret recipe for Grok to get out, and it’s filing a lawsuit to make sure of that. In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, xAI claimed that former employee Xuechen Li stole the company’s confidential info and trade secrets before joining the team at OpenAI. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company also alleged that Li copied documents …
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