xAI Cuts 500 Data Annotators, Ramps Up Specialist AI Tutors
Elon Musk’s xAI cut about 500 members of its data-annotation team — roughly one-third of the 1,500-person staff that preps training data for its Grok chatbot — as part of a sudden “strategic pivot.” The company says it will scale back generalist AI tutor roles and ramp up specialist AI tutors by 10x, hiring across domains like STEM, finance, medicine and safety.