Mass Resignation from xAI

19 pointsposted 24 days ago
by hargup

Item id: 46973839

13 Comments

TheAlchemist

23 days ago

Is that surprising ? The merger doesn't make any sense at all. Everybody knows it's a bailout and Musk's empire is running out of money - it's almost the last attempt to save it. He still has 2 more jokers left - SpaceX IPO or merge SpaceX with Tesla. But the writing is already on the wall.

AnimalMuppet

23 days ago

If I thought that AI was going to change the world, and I found out that my AI company was instead going to be used to raise money to cross-fund something else that was failing, I might well leave too.

throwaway019254

23 days ago

If you thought that, you would be really delusional about what is actually failing.

AnimalMuppet

23 days ago

Care to elaborate?

Zigurd

21 days ago

Both will fail. But SpaceX hasn't yet failed at refueling a starship in orbit, and may still be riding pretty high for an IPO this year. People are quitting because XAI is going to be a relatively small part of the valuation of the roll-up, and the value of the cofounders shares and lots of people's options are going to be disappointing. XAI cofounders and people with options also got diluted by merging with Twitter. They are doing the S-1 math and they don't like it.

daraksijra

23 days ago

this gonna age like milk

this move denominates everything by energy instead of money

those who left are anticipating it too, everything else theyll build is towards that

you either see things clicking together or you dont

jlongr

22 days ago

This is just schizo-posting.

techblueberry

23 days ago

Redundancies after the merger? “Resigning” to save face?

seydor

23 days ago

What are they quitting from? Twitter? Xai? Spacex?

sejje

23 days ago

How many people work there that six would be considered "mass?"

sloaken

23 days ago

Valid point. I am often amazed the reports (all sides of the political aisle) will list a number without context. Twice as many as last year. Went from 1 to 2, and we want you to be upset. It forces me to check multiple sites to understand the real numbers.

In the past I have attributed this to people being bad with numbers, but it is more and more apparent it is to hid the real meaning and push an agenda.

drsalt

23 days ago

all is fair in love and clickbait

softwaredoug

23 days ago

Musk burns through people at his companies. This isn’t that surprising. They’ll trick someone else into working there.