Elon Musk’s xAI lays off 500 from data annotation team, calls them ‘not needed’: Here’s why
Disgrace News: The artificial intelligence company, led by Elon Musk, has dismissed at least 500 employees from the data supplementary team that helps the development of Gok Chatbot. He reported the news portal. Work inside 13 September 2025 Saturday.
According to the news report, these 500 employees will enter into force immediately. E -mail was reported to be sent to employees on Friday, September 12, 2025.
In an official e -mail specified in the news portal report, “After a comprehensive review of our human data efforts, we decided to accelerate the expansion and prioritization of our expert AI teachers while reducing our focus on the general AI teacher roles. This strategic pivot will immediately enter into force”.
The company also announced that the reason behind these sudden business cuts at the artificial intelligence company did not need generalist AI teacher positions.
“As a part of this change at the focus point, we don’t need generalist AI teacher positions and your employment will result in XAI.
What will happen to 500 workers?
According to the report of the news portal, employees who were dismissed were told that they would be paid until the end of their contracts dated 30 November 2025. However, their access to company systems would be terminated after the dismissal notification. ‘
Disgraced employees are the largest team in Xai, which plays an important role in developing Gok by teaching AI Chatbot to understand the world by contexting and categorizing raw data.
In the afternoon, the main loose room used by data descriptions had more than 1,500 members, which fell over 1,000 from the evening of the same day. News portal, the number of employees continued to decrease throughout the news report reported.
Xai is hired!
In the midst of business cuts, the AI company, led by Elon Musk, announced that the company is looking for “Specialist AI Teachers” that will add great value to the company.
In a social media broadcast on the X Platform, the company, the team’s STEM, finance, medicine, security, etc.
“Specialist AI teachers in Xai add a great value. We will raise our expert AI teacher team with 10x immediately! They said in the article on X.
According to a report before the news portal, the dismissal notifications were reported to be sent to employees just a few days after a few days after several senior employees, including the old head of the team.
According to the news portal report on Saturday, it was claimed that the company had informed the workers to prepare for the reorganization of the data team before the layoffs.
