Key AI Industry Moves: xAI Cuts Staff, Perplexity’s Major Funding, YouTube’s Global Dubbing, Microsoft Expands AI Partners
xAI’s Big Shift: Lays Off 500 Data Annotators to Boost Specialist AI Teams Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has laid off around 500 workers from its data annotation team, the largest division responsible for labeling and contextualizing data to train its Grok chatbot. The affected employees, primarily generalist AI tutors, were notified via email on […]