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Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

3 months 2 weeks ago

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […]

Theresa Loconsolo

AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem

3 months 2 weeks ago

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten […]

Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane, Theresa Loconsolo