India, Sept. 14 -- Elon Musk's xAI laid off 500 workers from its data annotation team on Friday night. The data annotation team was tasked with training xAI's generative AI chatbot, Grok.

According to a Business Insider report, an email sent to affected employees on Friday night informed them that the AI company was scaling back its focus on general AI tutors, while prioritizing and expanding its focus on specialist AI tutors.

"After a thorough review of our Human Data efforts, we've decided to accelerate the expansion and prioritization of our specialist AI tutors, while scaling back our focus on general AI tutor roles. This strategic pivot will take effect immediately," the email read. "As part of this shift in focus, we no longer nee...