Musk’s xAI is Poaching Engineers From Tesla

As Elon Musk builds his xAI artificial intelligence startup, he’s having to compete with big tech giants and a slew of other startups for talent. One place he’s managed to snare several promising engineers from, though, is close to home—Tesla.

Last month, Tesla machine-learning scientist Ethan Knight became the third Tesla engineer to leave the car company for xAI, the startup’s website shows. At Tesla, Knight had overseen the team working on computer vision for Tesla’s self-driving technology, according to a former employee. His departure follows those of engineers who worked at Tesla on supercomputing, Autopilot and artificial intelligence infrastructure and who have joined xAI in the past 12 months.