https://layoffcheck.com/companies/xai Layoff and WARN notices reported for xAI. en-us https://layoffcheck.com/companies/xai#2025-09 https://layoffcheck.com/companies/xai#2025-09-249 Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT xAI laid off approximately 500 workers from its data-annotation team on September 12, 2025, eliminating about one-third of the 1,500-person group that labels and prepares training data for Grok. The company told affected employees that the cuts reflected a strategic pivot away from generalist AI tutor roles: "We no longer need most generalist AI tutor positions and your employment with xAI will conclude." In place of the eliminated roles, xAI said it planned to expand its specialist AI tutor team by tenfold, recruiting across domains including STEM, finance, medicine, and safety. No severance terms were disclosed publicly.