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How Elon Musk’s xAI is quietly taking over X

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xAI and X have perhaps the closest and most complex relationship of all of Elon Musk’s companies.

On paper, all xAI staffers are also X employees (but not the other way around) The relationship between X and xAI is complex, with varying levels of collaboration between their teams.

The ideology behind xAI is the familiar starry-eyed futurism that runs deep in the tech scene.

It's exactly the kind of audacious moonshot that makes Silicon Valley’s top talent and deepest pockets lean forward in their chairs.

Meanwhile, at X, some staffers joke that they’re no longer Musk 's favorite child.

The platform Musk claims he bought to protect free speech now seems to serve a different purpose entirely.