Igor Babaschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s startup Xai, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a Placed on x. Babiechkin led the engineering teams at XAI and helped build the startup in one of the main developers of the Silicon Valley models just a few years after its foundation.

“Today was my last day in Xai, the company that I helped to start with Elon Musk in 2023,” wrote Babiechkin in the post. “I still remember the day I met Elon for the first time, we talked for hours of AI and what the future could contain. We both heard that a new artificial intelligence company was needed with a different type of mission.

Babiechkin is leaving Xai to launch his company of risk capital, Babiechkin Ventures, who according to him will support the research on artificial intelligence security and the startups that “advance on humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe.

The XAI co-founder claims to have been inspired by the company after a dinner with Max Tegmark, the founder of the Future of Life Institute, in which these AI systems could be safely built to encourage the prosperity of future generations. In his assignment, Babaschkin says his parents emigrated to the United States from Russia in search of a better life for their children.

Babiechkin’s departure comes after a few months tumultuous for XAI, in which the company has absorbed in several scandals related to its ai chatbot groks. For example, Grok was found Cites Musk’s personal opinions When trying to answer controversial questions. In another box, Xai’s chatbot went on Rants Anti -Semites And it’s called “Mechahitler”. More recently, Xai has declared a new Grok function that allowed users to make videos generated by the AI Hear naked public charactersLike Taylor Swift.

These scandals sometimes have overshadowed the performance of the XAI models, which are avant -garde Numerous parameters of reference compared to the artificial intelligence models of Openai, Google Deepmind and Anthropic.

Before co-founding Xai, Babiechkin was part of a Google Deepmind research team that opened the road to Alfastar in 2019, an innovative artificial intelligence system that could defeat high-level players at the Starcraft video game. Babiechkin has also worked as a researcher at Overena in the years before Ghantgpt.

In his post, Babaschkin describes in detail some of the challenges that he and Musk faced in the construction of XAI. Note that the veterans of the sector defined XAI’s goal of building his Memphis Tennessee SuperCompleuter in just three months “impossible.

Xai was able to build it at the supercomputer for record time, however, Warn the surrounding environment That temporary gas turbines that feed the cluster are pumping the emissions in the communities of neighbors and exacerbating their long -standing health.

However, Babiechkin says he is already looking back with affection to his time in XAI, and “he feels like a proud parent, moving away after sending their child away to college.

“I learned 2 lessons priceless by Elon: #1 be fearless in rolling up your sleeves to dig personally in technical problems, #2 has a manic sense of urgency,” Babaschkin said.

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