New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Elon Musk's xAI had reportedly just gone through a round of sweeping layoffs, and now the company has hired a 20-year-old to lead its data annotation team, according to a report by Business Insider. The team is responsible for training Grok AI and is made up of contractual and full-time staffers who label, categorize, and contextualize raw data in order to teach Grok how to better understand the world.

​The 20-year-old boss of the data annotation team is Diego Pasini, who graduated high school in 2023, the same year xAI was founded.

​Pasini took over the team reportedly after at least nine high-level employees had their Slack accounts deactivated last week. Soon afterward, the company is said to have c...