India, Dec. 18 -- Indian-origin techie Vineeth Sendilraj, who found himself being judged by social media users for how he drank water during a hackathon, shared a life update, adding that it was a "full circle moment" for him. He tweeted that after being clipped at the event, he was now joining Elon Musk's AI company.

It all started with a picture from the xAI hackathon showing engineers competing to win. However, a few social media users zoomed in on Sendilraj in the photo and mocked him for the way he drank water out of a bottle.

Earlier, addressing the incident, Sendilraj tweeted, "1 million people judged how I drink water. I was damn thirsty" on December 9.

The techie tweeted again to share that he is now part of xAI, having joined...