At least nine engineers, including two co-founders , have now publicly announced their departure from xAI in the past week – though two of those exits appear to have occurred a few weeks ago. Neither xAI nor Elon Musk have publicly commented on the departures.  While attrition is typical at startups, co-founder departures are far less so. More than half of xAI’s founding team has now left, and the fact that several employees followed within days has intensified scrutiny around the company’s