Musk's xAI fires 500 employees of the data labeling team

PANews September 14th news, according to Zhitong Finance, Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI fired 500 team members on Friday night. The relevant email announced that the company will immediately make a "strategic shift" and decided to "accelerate the expansion of the professional AI mentor team and make it a priority, while reducing the focus on the general AI mentor position." xAI wrote in an email: "As part of this focus adjustment, we no longer need most general AI mentor positions, and your employment relationship with xAI will be terminated." Business Insider believes that the number of layoffs this time accounts for about one-third of the xAI's 1,500-person data labeling team. The team is mainly responsible for annotating and preprocessing the data used to train the xAI chatbot Grok.