Igor Babuschkin introduced this week that he’s leaving the corporate he helped cofound with Elon Musk to start out his personal firm centered on AI security analysis.
Babuschkin posted the information on X, which is owned by xAI, Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence firm.
“In the present day was my final day at xAI, the corporate that I helped begin with Elon Musk in 2023,” he wrote. “I nonetheless bear in mind the day I first met Elon. We talked for hours about AI and what the longer term would possibly maintain.”
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Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of xAI, in the course of the Nvidia GPU Know-how Convention (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg | Getty Pictures
Babuschkin wrote that “by means of blood, sweat, and tears,” they “shipped frontier fashions quicker than any firm in historical past,” and in the course of the course of, he earned two “priceless” classes from Musk.
1. Be fearless
“Be fearless in rolling up your sleeves to personally dig into technical issues,” he wrote. Babuschkin famous that Musk personally labored with the crew, flying to a knowledge middle and staying all evening till the problems had been fastened.
2. Have a “maniacal” sense of urgency
“xAI executes at ludicrous velocity,” he wrote. “Business veterans instructed us that constructing the Memphis supercluster in 120 days can be inconceivable. However we believed we might do the inconceivable.”
In the present day was my final day at xAI, the corporate that I helped begin with Elon Musk in 2023. I nonetheless bear in mind the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the longer term would possibly maintain. We each felt {that a} new AI firm with a special type of mission was wanted.
Constructing…
— Igor Babuschkin (@ibab) August 13, 2025
Musk replied to his publish, providing thanks: “Thanks for serving to construct xAI! We would not be right here with out you.”
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Igor Babuschkin introduced this week that he’s leaving the corporate he helped cofound with Elon Musk to start out his personal firm centered on AI security analysis.
Babuschkin posted the information on X, which is owned by xAI, Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence firm.
“In the present day was my final day at xAI, the corporate that I helped begin with Elon Musk in 2023,” he wrote. “I nonetheless bear in mind the day I first met Elon. We talked for hours about AI and what the longer term would possibly maintain.”
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