Musk's xAI “Borrows” Executive from Starlink to Lead Grok Training Team

Odaily Odaily Planet Daily News An internal memo shows that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, has "borrowed" an executive from SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service division to lead the model training team for the Grok chatbot.

The team was previously led by a young engineer, Diego Pasini. The newcomer is Jack Garabedian, who has worked as an engineer on the Starlink project at SpaceX since 2021. After joining xAI, he will take over the "human data team," which consists of hundreds of experts responsible for training Grok across various fields, from finance to science. Pasini and Garabedian did not respond to requests for comment, and representatives from SpaceX and xAI also did not respond. (Jin Shi)