Musk’s xAI lays off 500 Grok trainers

Elon Musk’s xAI just cut roughly 500 annotators, about a third of the team that helped train its chatbot Grok.

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- xAI is phasing out generalist AI tutors and reallocating resources to specialist trainers.

- Broad-skill annotators were let go, while those who passed sudden tests may be reassigned to niche fields.

- xAI plans to 10× its specialist tutor force in areas like STEM, finance, medicine, and safety.

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The generalist era of AI training is over — in this game, only specialists survive.

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