Elon Musk says xAI’s days of being behind in performance are numbered as the company makes two key hires to boost its coding ambitions.
In a new post on X, Musk says xAI is behind its competitors in coding because the company’s original setup and structure were not designed to support his objectives, including using AI to power robots and a mass driver on the Moon.
“xAI was not built right the first time around, so it is being rebuilt from the foundations up.
The same thing happened with Tesla.”
Musk believes that it’s only a matter of months before xAI leapfrogs the competition.
“xAI will catch up this year and then exceed them all by such a long distance in 3 years that you will need the James Webb telescope to see who is in second place.”
The xAI CEO’s statements come as the firm hires two product engineering leads from the AI coding startup Cursor.
On Friday, Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg announced on X that they were joining xAI to support the company’s ambitions to build data centers in space and beyond. A day later, former Mistral AI research scientist Devendra Chaplot also joined xAI to work closely with Musk and build superintelligence.
The arrival of key hires follows a string of co-founder exits that started in June of 2024.
In February, xAI was acquired by SpaceX for $250 billion with the explicit goal of developing space-based data centers powered by constant solar energy.
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