Elon Musk’s Zai just left 500 workers who trained Grook

Elon Musk’s startup, Zai just reduced his largest team by one -third.

According to reports, AI startup left at least 500 workers in the team’s data interpretation of 1,500 people on Friday night. Business Internal. The move means the team, which guides AI training, is less than 1,000 one thousand workers. The group has been entrusted with Ze’s chatboat, Grook, teaching how to make the data context.

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The company asked the team employees to complete a series of tests Thursday night, which would help to classify them based on their powers and interests. These tests cover areas such as coding, finance and medicine. More than 200 employees completed the test, which was the last date of Friday morning, Bi.

On Friday night, Xi notified some of the team employees that they were being discharged via email, which states that the company is looking for more “expert” AI Tutters, with deep knowledge of discipline such as science, technology, and finance, and without this special knowledge. Generalist AI tutors fight wider works, such as interpretation of videos and written assignments.

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“This strategic axis will be implemented immediately,” email, which was obtained BiRead. “As part of this change in attention, we no longer need Generalist AI tutor positions, and will result in your employment with Xi.”

^{Zee CEO Elon Musk. Photo by Chip Somodola/Getty Images}

Workers were told that they would immediately lose access to the company’s system, but that their salaries would be paid on the end of their deal or November 30.

Among the sixths, Xi is still serving: recently has been launched for open positions for expert AI tutor. A post on x Last week, Zee wrote that he was planning to expand his expert team ten times and hired “in domains” like Madison and Finance.

AI tutors in Zee are increasing the price. We will immediately increase our expert AI tutor team to 10x!

We are hiring domains such as stem, finance, medicine, safety, and more. Join us to help build the truth seek AGI!https://t.co/htpc2rijlg

– xai (xai) September 13, 2025

Zee is rapidly increasing its data interpretation team. Since February, Startup has said more About 700 employees According to the group Zee’s websiteAI tutor’s roles can be paid from 45 to $ 100 per hour. The company recorded 13 Open AI tutor positions at the time of writing.

Zee’s holidays follow several senior level departures from startups, including former company chief financial officer Mike Liberutre, who Left at the end of July. In the same month, Zai launched Grook 4So far its latest model, it has been described as the “world’s most intelligent model” with high performance on benchmark tests.