xAI is being hit with a fast-moving “exodus”, driven by circulating narrative that 11 people left their posts in one day, with “20 on this list in less than a month.”
A screenshot shows 15 separate exit-style posts timestamped Feb 6 through Feb 11, with the densest cluster concentrated in a tight window on Tuesday. Within that span, the list displays 12 names.
The named entries and roles span a wide spread of seniority signals but do not independently verify job level, impact, or whether each person is an employee versus contractor. The list includes: Ayush Jaiswal (Engineer, ex-Scale), Shayan (Product/Infra, ex-X), Simon Zhai (MTS, ex-DeepMind), Yuhuai (Tony) Wu (Co-founder, reasoning lead), Negi (Engineer, space tech focus), Jimmy Ba (Co-founder, research/safety), Vahid Kazemi (ML PhD, short stint), Richard Brien (Info systems specialist), Atlas (Podcaster/Builder), Hang Gao (Multimodal, Grok Imagine), Roland (Engineer/Builder), kodumit (Engineer, attention mechanisms), Cat Trades (Builder, autonomous tech), Simulated Requirements (Product-focused), and Chace Lee (MTS, Macrohard founding team).
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The quote snippets shown are short and broadly similar in meaning, including variations like “Last day at xAI,” “I resigned,” “I left xAI today,” and “Today is my last…”
Multiple xAI departures are credibly supported by primary posts, with the strongest verification for two co-founders: Yuhuai “Tony” Wu explicitly posted “I resigned from xAI today,” and Jimmy Ba posted it was his “last day at xAI.”
In the same period, several other individuals publicly said they had left or were on their last day at xAI, including Shayan (“I left xAI to start something new”), Simon Zhai (“Today is my last day at xAI”), Ayush Jaiswal (“This was my last week at xAI”), Hang Gao (“I left xAI today”), and Vahid Kazemi (“I left xAI a few weeks ago”), with some of these names also appearing in media roundups.
A commentator proposes three possibilities for the exits: incriminating Epstein documents, illegal business activities, or astronomical coincidence. Despite his claim that he’s not on the Epstein files, the name of xAI’s Elon Musk appeared multiple times, with an email showing Musk declining an invitation to Epstein’s island while asking about future parties.
“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Musk allegedly asked Epstein over an email.
This comes after SpaceX confirmed it has acquired xAI, consolidating rockets, Starlink, the Grok chatbot and X under one roof as the company positions itself for a blockbuster public offering. Multiple reports pegged the transaction’s implied values at $1.0 trillion for SpaceX and $250.0 billion for xAI, implying a combined $1.25 trillion enterprise value.
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