We don’t need these AI tutors: Elon Musk’s xAI says in internal memo to employees as it asks 500 Grok trainers to exit

Elon Musk's xAI has reportedly laid off at least 500 data annotators, impacting its Grok AI training. The company cited a strategic shift towards specialist AI tutors, planning a tenfold increase in that area. Affected employees, generalist AI tutors, were notified via email and had their system access terminated immediately.

We don’t need these AI tutors: Elon Musk’s xAI says in internal memo to employees as it asks 500 Grok trainers to exit
Elon Musk's xAI has reportedly laid off at least 500 data annotators, impacting its Grok AI training. The company cited a strategic shift towards specialist AI tutors, planning a tenfold increase in that area. Affected employees, generalist AI tutors, were notified via email and had their system access terminated immediately.