'Not built right the first time' -- Musk's xAI is starting over again, again
TechCrunch
“xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up”
Elon Musk12 March 2026- What you'll lose0/5
Nothing taken.
- Condescension0/5
Plain enough.
- Tone-deafness2/5
Rebuilt from the foundations, as co-founders left.
- Doom0/5
None.
- Hypocrisy0/5
None.
Full time2 pitchforksof a possible 25
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The occasion
X (post), 12 March 2026.
Context
Musk posted this on a Thursday as two more of xAI's co-founders left; he added that 'the same thing happened with Tesla'. He later apologised on X to candidates the company had earlier declined to interview. This is the mildest item in the file: the coverage is critical of xAI's churn more than of the sentence.
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Critical commentary
TechCrunch framed the remark as xAI 'starting over again, again', noting that of the original 11 co-founders only two remained and that 'by most measures, it isn't going all that smoothly'.