Musk Restructures xAI Team Amid Senior Departures, SpaceX Merger

Elon Musk has overhauled xAI’s leadership structure following its merger with SpaceX and as he pressures the AI firm to accelerate progress on Grok AI models, The Information’s latest org chart for the combined company shows. The changes coincide with an exodus of senior leaders. Just half of xAI’s 12 founding staffers, including Musk, still work full time at the company.

The xAI reorg has elevated a handful of technical leaders who now report directly to Musk, including co-founder Guodong Zhang, who leads teams working on coding and image-generation features while also overseeing the leadership team of social media service X, according to a person with direct knowledge of xAI’s operations. Another co-founder, Manuel Kroiss, is also leading xAI’s coding teams alongside Zhang.