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00:02Elon Musk's XAI has lost another founding member after Tony Wu announced late Monday
00:07that he resigned from the artificial intelligence startup, according to CNBC.
00:11Wu said he is leaving to begin his next chapter and described new opportunities for small teams
00:15using AI. Wu's resignation comes as XAI faces consumer backlash and regulatory probes in
00:21multiple countries tied to its Grok AI chatbot and image generator, which allowed mass creation
00:27and distribution of non-consensual explicit deepfake images involving real people, including
00:32children. Tesla CEO Musk launched XAI in 2023 with 11 other founders to compete with rivals
00:39such as OpenAI and Google. Last week, Musk said SpaceX acquired XAI in a deal valuing SpaceX
00:45at $1 trillion and XAI at $250 billion. For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.
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