In recent weeks, a series of leaks has plagued Elon Musk’s xAI. Indeed, a slow, steady drip of stories from major news outlets has found, as its basis, a healthy helping of anonymous sources and internal company messages that said sources seem more than willing to share. The portrait of the company that’s being painted is one of a tumultuous startup, where change is rapid and much of the staff has been moved around or let go.
The most recent leaks were reported in a New York Times piece on Friday, which, among other things, details a company meeting held on Wednesday involving Musk. At the meeting, Musk reportedly engaged in his usual habit of grandiose verbiage, which always seems designed to position the billionaire and his companies at the central pivot point of the universe:
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