xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team

According to Elon Musk’s AI Startup Ze left 500 team members on Friday night Internal messages through business internal.

These emails allegedly immediately announce the “strategic axis”, in which the company “has decided to accelerate the expansion and priority of our expert AI tutors, while focusing on the roles of ordinary AI tutor.”

Zai allegedly wrote, “As part of this change in this focus, we no longer need Generalist AI tutor positions and will conclude your job with Xi.”

According to the Business Insider, this deduction represents one -third of the team’s data interpretation of 1,500 people. The team that works to label and prepare the data used to train ZK’s chat boot guru.

When contacted for confirmation, Zai indicated A statement on x –

The company said, “We are hiring domains such as stem, finance, medicine, safety, and more.”