Elon Musk’s xAI fires 500+ workers, promotes 20-year-old student to run Grok team
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has placed a college student on leave from the University of Pennsylvania in charge of its crucial data annotation team following sweeping layoffs that eliminated over 500 positions. Diego Pasini, who graduated high school in 2023 and joined xAI just eight months ago, now leads the team responsible for…