Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, XAI, has dismissed 500 workers from her data annotation team, which helps to train her Grok chatbot.
The layoffs were earlier reported By Business Insider.
The company of IA informed employees by email that he planned to reduce his team of generalist tutors of AI, according to the messages consulted by the publication. The company said that the “strategic pivot” meant to prioritize AI specialized tutors, while reducing its accent on the general roles of AI tutors.
In response to the story, Xai led journalists to a job On X, in which the company declared that it planned to extend its specialized team of tutors AI by “10x” and intends to open roles on its quarry page.
The team of XAI human data annotators plays a key role in teaching in Grok to understand the world by labeling, contextualizing and categorizing the raw data used to form the chatbot. The email sent by XAI said that dismissed workers would be paid via the end of their contract or on November 30, but that their access to the company’s systems would be terminated on the day of implementation.
Before laying down, the XAI data annotation team was one of the most important, with 1,500 full -time and contractual staff, who included AI tutors. The reorganization of the data annotators team comes following an upheaval of leadership in the team that saw nine employees who would have left the company last week.
As a sign of his changing approach to the Grok training, XAI asked some of the AI tutors on Thursday to prepare for tests, reported Insider Business, which covered traditional fields such as STEM, coding, finance and medicine, as well as more exidential specialties such as the “personality and behavior of the Grok model” and “condemned to do”.
Musk launched Xai in 2023 to compete with Openai and Google Deepmind, who run to win the AI race. He presented Grok as a safe and truthful alternative to what he accused competitors of building “awakened” chatbots subject to censorship.
