Two co-founders of Elon Musk's?xAI resign, joining exodus

xAI co-founders Tony Wu and ​Jimmy Ba have resigned from the artificial intelligence firm they ​started with billionaire Elon Musk less ​than three ⁠years ago, they said in social media posts. The ​exits are ‌the latest in an exodus from xAI that leaves the ​firm with half of its 12 co-founders. The Financial Times reported that Ba's resignation followed tensions ‌within ‌its ​technical team over demands to improve its AI model performance as Musk pushes to catch up ​to rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Ba did not immediately respond to a ​request for comment via X messaging on the FT report. Ba and Wu did not say in their posts on X why ‌they were resigning or detail their next plans, but thanked Musk. The latest changes ⁠at xAI come ​days after Musk's SpaceX said it will purchase xAI to create a $1.25 trillion company ⁠with ⁠plans to go public later ⁠this year to help finance the billionaire's ambitions to put data centers in space.