Archive · 14 Aug 2025

xAI Co-founder Babuschkin Launches AI Safety Venture

xAI Co-founder Babuschkin Launches AI Safety Venture

Igor Babuschkin, who helped start Elon Musk's AI company xAI, is leaving to start his own company called Babuschkin Ventures.

This new company will fund research and startups that are working on making AI safe.

Babuschkin helped build the technical side of things at xAI, like the huge computers needed to train the AI models.

He previously worked at DeepMind.

There have been other executive changes recently, and xAI's Grok chatbot has had some problems.

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