xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team

Elon Kastor’s AI Startup Jyye outdated 500 team members on Friday night, said Internal messages seen by business interiorThe

These emails have announced an instant “strategic pivot”, “The agency has decided to accelerate the expansion and priority of our expert AI tutors, while the general AI tutor returns our focus on the role.”

“As part of the focus on this shift, most of us no longer need the post of AI Tutor and will reach your employment decision with Jai,” Jai wrote.

According to the Business Insider, these cuts present about a third of Jaya’s 1,500-person data vaccine team-the team that labeled and prepare the data used to train Jai’s Chatbot Grock.

When contacted for confirmation, Jai pointed A statement on x (It is the social network owned by the musk Earned at the beginning of this year) The announcement that the company will immediately increase our expert AI tutor team by 10x. “

“We are recruiting throughout the domain like stem, finance, medicine, protection and many others,” the company said.