Igor Babuschkin, a founding member of Elon Musk’s xAI, mentioned Wednesday that he is leaving the synthetic intelligence startup to launch his personal enterprise agency.

“In the present day was my final day at xAI, the corporate that I helped begin with Elon Musk in 2023,” Babuschkin wrote on X, which is owned by xAI. “I nonetheless keep in mind the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the long run may maintain. We each felt {that a} new AI firm with a distinct type of mission was wanted. Constructing AI that advances humanity has been my lifelong dream.”

A former analysis engineer for Google’s DeepMind and ex-member of OpenAI’s technical workers, Babuschkin recounted a few of xAI’s main operational achievements throughout his tenure, together with constructing out engineering groups on the firm.

“By blood sweat and tears, our crew’s blistering velocity constructed the Memphis supercluster, and shipped frontier fashions quicker than any firm in historical past,” he wrote.

The power in Memphis processes information and trains the fashions that energy xAI’s Grok chatbot.

Musk wrote, in response, “Thanks for serving to construct @xAI! We would not be right here with out you.”

Babuschkin mentioned he is beginning Babuschkin Ventures to assist AI security analysis and put money into startups in “AI and agentic programs that advance humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe.”

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