xAI Co-founder Exodus Continues, Only 2 Remain from 11-Person Team

Gate News Report, March 13 — xAI co-founder Zihang Dai left the company this week, and another co-founder, Guodong Zhang, confirmed on X today that this is his last day at xAI. Zhang reports directly to Musk and is responsible for two key projects: Grok Code (programming agent) and Grok Imagine (AI image and video generation). Since January this year, four co-founders—Toby Pohlen, Jimmy Ba, Tony Wu, and Greg Yang—have left xAI. After Dai and Zhang’s departure, only Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen remain of the 11 co-founders who started xAI with Musk in 2023. Last month, Musk announced a reorganization of xAI, cutting some staff, including teams working on the enterprise-focused Macrohard project and Grok Imagine.

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