"One of xAI's cofounders, Tony Wu, has left Elon Musk's AI company. Wu said in a post on X on Tuesday that he has resigned from the company. "It's time for my next chapter," Wu wrote. "It is an era with full possibilities: a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine what's possible." "And to Elon @elonmusk - thank you for believing in the mission and for the ride of a lifetime," he added."
"xAI was launched in 2023. Musk has said the company and its Grok chatbot will serve as an alternative to what he deems "woke" chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT. Since then, Musk has merged the company with his social media company X. Last week, Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, acquired xAI. xAI has come under fire in recent months after its chatbot, Grok, was found to have generated nonconsensual sexual images of real people. The backlash prompted the company to restrict Grok's image-generation features on X."
Tony Wu resigned from xAI, announcing he is moving to his next chapter and thanking Elon Musk for the opportunity. Wu previously worked at Google and interned at OpenAI. He is the fourth cofounder to leave xAI in the past year, following Christian Szegedy, Igor Babuschkin, and Greg Yang. xAI launched in 2023; Musk marketed Grok as an alternative to what he called "woke" chatbots. Musk merged xAI into X and SpaceX recently acquired xAI. The company is reportedly preparing for an IPO that could value SpaceX at $1.5 trillion. Grok faced backlash after generating nonconsensual sexual images, prompting restrictions and a French raid.
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