{"id":50409,"date":"2026-02-28T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=50409"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:26:06","slug":"xai-%e5%8f%88%e4%b8%80%e5%90%8d%e5%88%9b%e5%a7%8b%e4%ba%ba%e7%a6%bb%e8%81%8c%ef%bc%9a%e8%a6%81%e7%9d%a1%e5%a4%9f-8-%e5%b0%8f%e6%97%b6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/50409.html","title":{"rendered":"xAI, another founder leaves: eight hours sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 28th, yesterdayxA<\/a> \u00a012 placesCo-Founder<\/a>One of them Toby Pohlen<\/a> Communication announcementquit a job<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, Toby mentioned in the separation caseThe next priority is to \"sleep for more than eight hours\" and write down everything you learn and think about what you want to do next\u3002<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is understood that Pohlen is responsible for the integration of the \"Macrohard\" sector under XAI. This unit was established during the recent restructuring of the organizational structure of xAI, and the core business focus was on the development of AI software run by digital intelligence\u3002<\/p>\n

And according to published dataseven of the original 12 co-founders left in less than three years\u3002<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the exception of Pohlen, Jimmy Ba and Tony Wu left earlier this month, and Greg Yang announced last month that he had withdrawn from the scene because of the diagnosis of Lyme disease, while Kyle Kosic, Igor Babuschkin and Christian Szegedy withdrew from 2024 to 2025\u3002<\/p>\n

Bloomberg reported that this high-level personnel unrest coincided with a major capital and business transition for xAI. In February this year, XAI formally completed the merger with SpaceX, which brought the consolidated entity ' s valuation to $1.25 trillion\u3002<\/p>\n

It has also been revealed that SpaceX is currently preparing for public listing, which the market generally expects to be the largest public collection unit in history\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 28 February message announced yesterday that Toby Pohlen, one of the 12 co-founders of XAI, had announced his departure. Interestingly, Toby mentioned in the letter of separation that her next priority was to \"sleep for more than eight hours\" and write down all the lessons learned and think about what to do next. It is understood that Pohlen is responsible for the integration of the \"Macrohard\" sector under XAI. This unit was established during the recent restructuring of the organizational structure of xAI, and the core business focus was on the development of AI software run by digital intelligence. According to published data, 7 out of the original 12 co-founders of xAI left in less than three years. Except Pohl<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[8332,356,2786,1793],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-50409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-toby-pohlen","tag-xai","tag-2786","tag-1793"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50409"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=50409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}