xAI co-founders Zihang Dai and Guodong Zhang depart as Elon Musk rebuilds company foundations

by | Mar 13, 2026 | Latest E-commerce News & Updates

xAI co-founders Zihang Dai and Guodong Zhang departed the startup as part of a growing list of founding member exits this month. Their departures leave only two of the original 11 co-founders at the company. Elon Musk says that the organization is being rebuilt from the foundations up to better scale.

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