Elon Musk said he is rebuilding xAI from the ground up just a month after SpaceX acquired his AI startup in one of the biggest mergers of all time. Following a gradual exodus from xAI, the world’s richest man is trying to reimagine the company with heightened ambitions. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO added in a post on X last week that xAI was undergoing a process similar to an earlier one at Tesla, which Musk has been CEO of since 2008. “xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up,” he wrote in the post. Musk said the purpose of the SpaceX acquisition is building “orbital data centers,” which he has said are the most cost-effective way of producing AI computing power. Yet here on Earth, Musk is dealing with a seemingly less lofty, but all-too-important, staffing issue. A pair of xAI cofounders left the company last week and two others bailed last month, Business Insider reported, meaning nine of the original 11 cofounders not named Musk have left the company since 2024. These most recent departures come after an exodus of about a dozen senior engineers. Read more: https://fortune.com/2026/03/16/elon-musk-xai-rebuilding-cofounders-engineers-exodus-macrohard-project-spacex-acquisition/ submitted by /u/fortune
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