Elon Musk’s xAI has hired more than a dozen Tesla workers for its language model, Grok, amid a lawsuit from Tesla shareholders over the issue.
Last year, Musk introduced a new AI startup, xAI, and the move was controversial, basically because he himself described Tesla as “an AI company. “
A few years earlier, Musk had officially left OpenAI, a direct competitor of xAI, due to a “conflict of interest with Tesla” related to the automaker’s own AI efforts and AI talent recruitment.
It’s unclear how starting your own AI startup would be different. Not surprisingly, it wasn’t long before conflicts of interest arose.
Earlier this year, we reported that Musk strangely asked for a 25% voiceover from Tesla due to his concerns that an entity could take over the company for its artificial intelligence projects.
He warned that without this checkpoint, he would “prefer to build products outside of Tesla,” most likely as a component of the new xAI, which many saw as an apparent clash of interests by publicly admitting that he would concentrate his AI. efforts outside Tesla’s doors.
Tesla shareholders are now suing Musk and the Tesla board of directors for breach of fiduciary duty related to their paintings on xAI, particularly due to the risk of an increase over Tesla and the use of Tesla resources. Tesla, such as diverting NVIDIA GPUs from Tesla to xAI and recruiting other people from the automaker.
This point is a persistent problem.
Electrek has now discovered more than a dozen former Tesla painters now working at xAI, according to their LinkedIn profiles.
Tesla’s most recent ability to migrate to xAI was data collection program manager Matteo Jin, who left Tesla after almost five years to become a “senior mentor” at xAI:
His transfer from Tesla to xAI even came after shareholders filed a lawsuit against Musk and Tesla’s board of directors.
I have no idea why other people voted for Musk to get the refund from Tesla. I am not a Tesla shareholder, but I would have voted “NO” on his compensation.
Well, now we’re looking at the aftermath, which looks promising at the IMO.
Based on the task descriptions, “AI tutor” appears to be the term used across xAI to refer to knowledge annotation.
We found that at least five Tesla engineers working on AI joined xAI, but most of the more than a dozen Tesla employees who joined xAI worked on data annotation, and are now “AI tutors” at Musk’s new startup.
Musk didn’t comment on Tesla’s move of skills to xAI, but he did comment on how he handles the recruitment of new AI skills between Tesla and xAI:
There are some that just need to paint in AGI. So what I found out was that in looking to recruit other people for Tesla, they were only interested in operating AGI and not Tesla’s rapid upheavals and wanted to get started: creating a start-up. So, either move on to a start-up or. . . And I’m involved, or I create a startup and I’m not involved. These are the two options. That’s not why they would come to Tesla. In no case did they pass to come to Tesla.
This will most likely be challenged in court, but it also doesn’t relate to Tesla’s direct ability move to xAI. This skill move comes as Musk even goes so far as to recommend that Tesla invest in xAI.
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