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xAI

AI company building the Grok chatbot, founded by Elon Musk.

Private Founded 2023 Burlingame USA Artificial Intelligence
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Founders

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Christian Szegedy
Co-founder
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Elon Musk
Founder
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Greg Yang
Co-founder
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Igor Babuschkin
Co-founder
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Jimmy Ba
Co-founder

Where its founders came from

10

The companies and labs that produced xAI’s founders.

Zip2 PayPal X.com SpaceX Tesla OpenAI Neuralink Google DeepMind University of Toronto

The xAI diaspora

16 companies

People who worked at or founded xAI and went on to start their own companies.

E 14 founded
Zip2 1996 PayPal 1998 X.com 1999 SpaceX 2002 Tesla 2003 Hyperloop One 2014 OpenAI 2015 Neuralink 2016 The Boring Company 2016 Thud 2017 X Corp. 2023 SpaceXAI 2023 X Holdings Corp 2023 America PAC
I 2 founded
SpaceXAI 2023 River AI

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