Igor Babuschkin announced this week that he is leaving the company he helped cofound with Elon Musk to start his own company focused on AI safety research.
Babuschkin posted the news on X, which is owned by xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company.
“Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023,” he wrote. “I still remember the day I first met Elon. We talked for hours about AI and what the future might hold.”
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Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of xAI, during the Nvidia