Elon Musk’s xAI laysoff 500 employees, stating not needed anymore

Elon Musk’s xAI laid off 500 data annotators, shifting focus to hiring domain-specialist AI tutors in STEM, coding, finance, and personality modeling for its Grok chatbot. Calling the generalist roles “not needed,” xAI plans to hire 10x more experts to boost training quality and character development. The restructuring reflects Musk’s push for Grok as an “unfiltered” AI rival.