All 11 founders of xAI have resigned: Musk says "we are rebuilding from the ground up"
The last two founders, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, also went.The company swallowed by SpaceX has now opened a chapter and a goal called SpaceXAI: to capture Claude of Anthropic.
All 11 founding partners who were with Elon Musk when he founded the xAI were separated from the company. The last two names, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, also left their positions.
Musk said the structure was "rebuilt from the ground up," stating that the company was "not set up properly at the first time."This explanation came after the founding staff was completely disbanded.
xAI was acquired by SpaceX earlier this year. SpaceXAI is now positioned as a division working in the fields of artificial intelligence and social media within SpaceX. When Musk put Michael Nicolls at the head of the company this spring, the agenda was clear: catching Anthropic’s Claude chat robot.
The complete change of the founding staff and the company’s transformation into a division of a space company marks the end of xAI’s position as an independent artificial intelligence laboratory.
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The complete disintegration of the founding staff is not a crisis indicator alone; the real signal company has gone from being an independent artificial intelligence laboratory to become a division of a space company. The research agenda in this structure is no longer defined by the laboratory itself, but by the operational needs of the parent company. Musk's "rebuilding from the ground up" statement also confirms this: the race is no longer to improve the model, but to rebuild the institution.
