Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company
10 days ago
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- Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of xAI, announced his departure to start his own venture capital firm, Babuschkin Ventures.
- Babuschkin's new firm will focus on AI safety research and startups that advance humanity and explore the universe.
- xAI faced scandals involving its AI chatbot Grok, including controversial responses and AI-generated videos resembling public figures.
- Despite scandals, xAI's models are state-of-the-art, competing with OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.
- Babuschkin previously worked on AlphaStar at Google DeepMind and was a researcher at OpenAI before co-founding xAI.
- xAI built a supercomputer in Memphis in record time, though environmental concerns were raised about emissions.
- Babuschkin shared lessons from Elon Musk: fearlessness in tackling technical problems and a sense of urgency.