Elon Musk's xAI Loses Last Original Co-Founder Ahead Of SpaceX IPO: Report

Elon Musk‘s past archetypal co-founder at xAI, Ross Nordeen, has reportedly resigned. This marks the extremity of an epoch for the company, which is present undergoing a large reorganization arsenic it prepares for a high-profile IPO.

Nordeen, 1 of the 11 co-founders who helped motorboat xAI with Musk, has near the company, Business Insider reported, citing sources.

The 36-year-old had acquisition successful high-performance computing and artificial quality systems from his enactment astatine Tesla and brought that cognition to xAI.

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According to the report, helium was a cardinal fig astatine xAI, reporting straight to Musk and overseeing the company's operations.

Nordeen reportedly joined Musk aft moving astatine Tesla to assistance motorboat the AI startup successful 2023. He had besides played a relation successful organizing important layoffs astatine X pursuing Musk's takeover of the institution successful 2022.

His exit reflects a broader signifier astatine xAI, which has experienced aggregate high-profile departures successful caller months. It comes amid a question of exits that started with Igor Babuschkin, who near successful August 2025 to motorboat a caller AI information venture, and respective others successful a abbreviated span of time.

Nordeen joins a database of co-founders who person near the company, including Manuel Kroiss, Guodong Zhang, Zihang Dai, Toby Pohlen, Jimmy Ba, Tony Wu, and Greg Yang.

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Since SpaceX merged with xAI, the institution has undergone large restructuring, with galore leaders appointed by Musk to cardinal projects departing.

Although it is 1 of the best-funded players successful the AI sector, xAI has struggled to standard and vie with large rivals specified arsenic OpenAI and Anthropic.

Despite these challenges, Musk remains optimistic astir the aboriginal of xAI and has acknowledged the request to rebuild the institution from the crushed up. xAI has been actively recruiting caller talent, including elder leaders from the AI coding institution Cursor, Andrew Milich, and Jason Ginsberg.

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