Layoff news, Sept. 13 -- Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence company xAI is set to lay off at least 500 employees from its data annotation team, which helps develop the Grok chatbot. The company plans to downsize its team of generalist AI tutors, reported the news portal Business Insider on Saturday, 13 September 2025.

According to the news report, these 500 employee job cuts will be effective immediately. The email was reportedly sent to the employees on the night of Friday, 12 September 2025.

"After a thorough review of our Human Data efforts, we've decided to accelerate the expansion and prioritisation of our specialist AI tutors, while scaling back our focus on general AI tutor roles. This strategic pivot will take effect immediat...