Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of data annotators, Business Insider reports

Elon Musk's xAI has laid off at least 500 workers from its data annotation team, which helps develop the company's Grok chatbot, Business Insider reported on Friday. The company notified employees by email on Friday night that it was planning to downsize its team of generalist AI tutors, the report said, citing multiple messages viewed by Business Insider. Get a daily digest of breaking business news straight to your inbox with the Reuters Business newsletter. Sign up here. Responding to a request for comment, xAI referred to a post on X, opens new tab in which the company said it was hiring for roles across domains and planned to increase its specialist AI tutor team by "10X." The data annotation...