{"id":3488888,"date":"2026-03-28T16:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/elon-musks-most-recent-co-founder-allegedly-departs-from-xai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:11:16","slug":"elon-musks-most-recent-co-founder-allegedly-departs-from-xai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/elon-musks-most-recent-co-founder-allegedly-departs-from-xai\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s most recent co-founder allegedly departs from xAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/elon-musks-most-recent-co-founder-allegedly-departs-from-xai.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, it seemed that only two of Elon Musk\u2019s 11 co-founders at his AI venture xAI remained with the firm. Now, as per Business Insider, the last two co-founders, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, have also exited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, BI reported that Kroiss informed others about his departure from xAI, followed by the news that Nordeen also left the company on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk recently asserted that xAI \u201cwas not constructed properly [the] first time around,\u201d and is now \u201cbeing rebuilt from the ground up.\u201d The company has recently been acquired by Musk\u2019s SpaceX, integrating SpaceX, xAI, and X (previously Twitter) under one corporate entity, especially as SpaceX is reportedly gearing up for a public offering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to BI, both Kroiss and Nordeen reported directly to Musk, with Kroiss heading the company\u2019s pretraining team, while Nordeen served as Musk\u2019s \u201cright-hand operator.\u201d Nordeen reportedly transitioned to xAI from Tesla and played a role in strategizing significant layoffs at Twitter after Musk took over that company in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has contacted xAI for a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/elon-musks-most-recent-co-founder-allegedly-departs-from-xai.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, it seemed that only two of Elon Musk\u2019s 11 co-founders at his AI venture xAI remained with the firm. Now, as per Business Insider, the last two co-founders, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, have also exited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, BI reported that Kroiss informed others about his departure from xAI, followed by the news that Nordeen also left the company on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk recently asserted that xAI \u201cwas not constructed properly [the] first time around,\u201d and is now \u201cbeing rebuilt from the ground up.\u201d The company has recently been acquired by Musk\u2019s SpaceX, integrating SpaceX, xAI, and X (previously Twitter) under one corporate entity, especially as SpaceX is reportedly gearing up for a public offering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to BI, both Kroiss and Nordeen reported directly to Musk, with Kroiss heading the company\u2019s pretraining team, while Nordeen served as Musk\u2019s \u201cright-hand operator.\u201d Nordeen reportedly transitioned to xAI from Tesla and played a role in strategizing significant layoffs at Twitter after Musk took over that company in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has contacted xAI for a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3488889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3488889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}