Elon Musk moves to shake up xAI as founders depart
Technology
Big changes at xAI: The last two co-founders, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, have just left the company.
Their departures wrap up a full founding team turnover and come as Elon Musk moves to shake up xAI's leadership.
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Kroiss led pretraining projects, while Nordeen (who previously helped Musk with big layoffs at Twitter) handled operations.
Their departures coincided with SpaceX bringing xAI and X (formerly Twitter) under the same corporate umbrella; no explicit plan to merge the businesses has been stated.
This all comes as SpaceX is rumored to be eyeing a public offering, signaling even bigger shifts ahead for Musk's companies.