The past few days have been a wild ride for xAI, which is racking up staff and cofounder departure announcements left and right. A number of staffers also took to X to announce they were leaving xAI, with some announcing that they were starting their own AI companies. A lot of decisions on what to ship happen via an all-company group chat on X with Musk in it, he said. A second source, who departed xAI before the recent restructuring and requested anonymity, echoed the thoughts that Musk’s company was playing catch-up. “There is zero safety whatsoever in the company — not in the image [model], not in the chatbot,” the second source said.