Igor Babuschkin announced this week that he is leaving the company he helped cofound with Elon Musk to start his own company focused on AI safety research. Babuschkin posted the news on X, which is owned by xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company. "Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023," he wrote. Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023. We both felt that a new AI company with a different kind of mission was needed.