@elonmusk told us that the top AI people wanted to work in a focused startup like XAI. They did not want to be in a larger corporation. This can been seen that the competing AI leaders are OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity, Safe Superintelligence. Dedicated AI companies.

Who was Elon Musk able to attract and recruit before? Ilya Sutskever and Ilya and his team made the huge breakthrough to scale large language models. Ilya has his own company working to Safe Superintelligence. Elon recruited Andre Karpathy.