Re:Mass Resignation from xAI
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @09:06AM
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If I thought that AI was going to change the world, and I found out that my AI company was instead going to be used to raise money to cross-fund something else that was failing, I might well leave too.
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Re:Mass Resignation from xAI
by throwaway019254 on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:45PM
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If you thought that, you would be really delusional about what is actually failing.
Re:Mass Resignation from xAI
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:48PM
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Care to elaborate?
Both will fail. But SpaceX hasn't yet failed at refueling a starship in orbit, and may still be riding pretty high for an IPO this year. People are quitting because XAI is going to be a relatively small part of the valuation of the roll-up, and the value of the cofounders shares and lots of people's options are going to be disappointing. XAI cofounders and people with options also got diluted by merging with Twitter. They are doing the S-1 math and they don't like it.