Elon Musk is said to be restructuring xAI, his artificial intelligence startup, following the exit of two of its co-founders earlier this week. XAI will reportedly be organized in four core areas - Grok’s chatbot and voice product; Coding; the Imagine video product; and Macrohard, an AI software company run by digital agents. Musk presented the plan in an all-hands meeting with xAI staffers, which he later made public on the social network X.
“What matters is velocity and acceleration,” he told employees. “If you are moving faster, you will be the leader.”
He also thanked the people who have departed the company.
xAI saw back-to-back departures of Jimmy Ba and Tony Wu, two of the startup’s co-founders, along with a handful of other staff members who have left the company over the past few days.
Aman Madaan, who joined xAI in 2024, is leading the main chatbot and voice division. In the meeting, he noted that xAI is quickly developing its models, spurred on by the success of OpenAI’s voice model. “We had nothing, but in six months we developed it from scratch,” he said.
Co-founder Manuel Kroiss will lead the coding team, while Guodong Zhang, another of the co-founders, will be overseeing video generation, while helping with coding. Toby Pohlen, also part of the founding team, will be in charge of Macrohard, a division named as a play on Microsoft Corp.
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