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  Shake-up at xAI: Co-founders Depart as Elon Musk Admits Initial Team "Wasn't Right" The AI industry is buzzing following a major leadership reshuffle at xAI . Two co-founders, Zihang Dai and Guodong Zhang , have officially departed from the company. Their exit follows a series of critical remarks from Elon Musk , who reportedly criticized xAI’s coding models for failing to keep pace with rivals like Claude Code . The Great Founding Team Reset With these recent departures, only two of the original 11 co-founders (excluding Musk)   Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen  remain at the company. This marks the second major wave of exits following a group departure earlier this February. In a move to fill the void, xAI has recruited two key engineers from Cursor , the popular AI-powered code editor: Jason Ginsberg and Andrew Milich . Confirming the transition on social media, Musk admitted that the founding team "wasn't the right team" and emphasized the need to reb...

  Exodus at Qwen: Tech Lead Junyang Lin Departs as Researchers Tweet "Qwen is Nothing Without Its People" The AI world is reeling after Junyang Lin , the prominent Tech Lead of the Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) team, announced his resignation from Alibaba after a seven-year tenure. Lin, who joined the tech giant in 2019, provided no specific reason for his departure. However, the move has triggered a wave of resignations among high-profile researchers within the Qwen lab. The "Altman-esque" Revolt Following Lin's exit, key researchers including Kaixin Li and Binyuan Hui have also stepped down. The internal friction became public when team members like Chujie Zheng, Junrong Lin, and Chang Gao took to social media, tweeting: "Qwen is nothing without its people." This phrase is a direct echo of the internal protest seen at OpenAI when Sam Altman was briefly ousted in late 2023, signaling a deep-seated rift between the core talent and Alibaba’s leadership. Aw...