Last Remaining Co-Founders Depart Elon Musk's xAI Amid Series of Exits
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xAI Loses All Co-Founders: Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen Latest to Exit
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Firstpost•30-03-2026, 09:12
xAI Loses All Co-Founders: Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen Latest to Exit
•Elon Musk's xAI sees final co-founders, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, depart, leaving the company without its original architects.
•Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, and Nordeen, a key operational figure and long-time Musk associate, have both exited recently.
•Their departures follow earlier resignations from co-founders Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba, signaling deeper turbulence within the organization.
•Musk acknowledges the need for a fundamental reset, stating xAI is being "rebuilt from the foundations up" amid internal tensions and pressure to compete.
•The complete departure of the founding team is rare for a young tech company, raising questions about xAI's stability and future as it attempts to scale rapidly.