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There used to be a list of people on the about page but they changed it, apparently. Here's a snapshot that still shows it: https://web.archive.org/web/2024041

There used to be a list of people on the about page but they changed it, apparently. Here's a snapshot that still shows it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240415120557/x.ai/about https://web.archive.org/web/20240415120557/x.ai/about I don't know enough about the AI/ML scene to say if any of these are notable people.

ml-anon 2y ago
Their founding team and first few after that are top top tier. Honestly some of the best engineers at DM. Unsurprising really given that he was offering ~$10M/year in comp. The rest? Who knows.
- riku_iki 2y ago
  > Honestly some of the best engineers at DM. like who? > Unsurprising really given that he was offering ~$10M/year in com where did you get this from?
belter 2y ago
There is at least one person there at the top of the Technical Team....I don't recognize from the scene, at least his name does not show as author or co-author in any ML papers I can remember reading...a certain Elon Musk.... :-)
- dagmx 2y ago
  Well the question they were responding to (mine) specifically says “other than Elon”. So it’s very fair to exclude him.
  - belter 2y ago
    The question is other than money, is it fair he puts himself on top of the Technical Team? What is next? Andy Jassy as Tech Lead of AWS AI Team?
    - dagmx 2y ago
      Elon is a megalomaniac who fancies himself an engineer (yes he used to be one, but his with then is oft disparaged) Even if he had the best names in the industry attached, he would always put himself first. I don’t think it’s wrong he’d do so either , because he has a cult of personality that would make him the biggest feature (positive/negative) of any company he is involved with. Hence why I specifically only ask for other people on note here.
      - belter 2y ago
        When was he an Engineer?
        sangnoir 2y ago
        I heard he was doing code reviews at Twitter... on code printed on paper to determine of he ought to fire or keep the author.
        dagmx 2y ago
        Back in the original X days, he apparently did code to get X off the ground before PayPal bought them.
dagmx 2y ago
Thanks! That page is a good find. Very few of the names stand out to me (being adjacently familiar with the space). However I did search based on your link… (Edit: with the exception of Chris Szegedy, thanks to the reply below for pointing that out) Most of them seem to have been secondary/tertiary people on the projects listed. Definitely feels a bit like resume padding. It’s also unfortunate that searching for the first person after Elon nets results for their domestic abuse arrest over any achievements in the space. Further down, one of the only two women involved is a “creative AI writer/filmmaker”. Not a strong amount of diversity on their roster but also a weird role to highlight. None of this is to diminish the work the people here do or have done, but it’s a startlingly high valuation for a company without high name recognition technical expertise in this domain. Elon has traditionally relied on well known expert partners in the areas he’s expanded into, so this feels like an outlier.
- gregolo 2y ago
  Chris Szegedy is a big name at least
  - dagmx 2y ago
    Ah yeah you’re right. Though I am surprised he lists himself online as co-founder while being so far down the list here. I wonder if everyone on this list is a co-founder? I would imagine they’d have preferred to list by seniority.
  - riku_iki 2y ago
    It sounds like he did published some results at pre-LLM era before 2017, and there was silence after that.
- katechon 2y ago
  Imagine inventing the Adam optimizer just for some guy on Hacker news to accuse you of resume padding

ml-anon 2y ago

Their founding team and first few after that are top top tier. Honestly some of the best engineers at DM. Unsurprising really given that he was offering ~$10M/year in comp. The rest? Who knows.

riku_iki 2y ago
> Honestly some of the best engineers at DM. like who? > Unsurprising really given that he was offering ~$10M/year in com where did you get this from?

belter 2y ago

There is at least one person there at the top of the Technical Team....I don't recognize from the scene, at least his name does not show as author or co-author in any ML papers I can remember reading...a certain Elon Musk.... :-)

dagmx 2y ago
Well the question they were responding to (mine) specifically says “other than Elon”. So it’s very fair to exclude him.
- belter 2y ago
  The question is other than money, is it fair he puts himself on top of the Technical Team? What is next? Andy Jassy as Tech Lead of AWS AI Team?
  - dagmx 2y ago
    Elon is a megalomaniac who fancies himself an engineer (yes he used to be one, but his with then is oft disparaged) Even if he had the best names in the industry attached, he would always put himself first. I don’t think it’s wrong he’d do so either , because he has a cult of personality that would make him the biggest feature (positive/negative) of any company he is involved with. Hence why I specifically only ask for other people on note here.
    - belter 2y ago
      When was he an Engineer?
      - sangnoir 2y ago
        I heard he was doing code reviews at Twitter... on code printed on paper to determine of he ought to fire or keep the author.
      - dagmx 2y ago
        Back in the original X days, he apparently did code to get X off the ground before PayPal bought them.

dagmx 2y ago

Thanks! That page is a good find. Very few of the names stand out to me (being adjacently familiar with the space). However I did search based on your link… (Edit: with the exception of Chris Szegedy, thanks to the reply below for pointing that out) Most of them seem to have been secondary/tertiary people on the projects listed. Definitely feels a bit like resume padding. It’s also unfortunate that searching for the first person after Elon nets results for their domestic abuse arrest over any achievements in the space. Further down, one of the only two women involved is a “creative AI writer/filmmaker”. Not a strong amount of diversity on their roster but also a weird role to highlight. None of this is to diminish the work the people here do or have done, but it’s a startlingly high valuation for a company without high name recognition technical expertise in this domain. Elon has traditionally relied on well known expert partners in the areas he’s expanded into, so this feels like an outlier.

gregolo 2y ago
Chris Szegedy is a big name at least
- dagmx 2y ago
  Ah yeah you’re right. Though I am surprised he lists himself online as co-founder while being so far down the list here. I wonder if everyone on this list is a co-founder? I would imagine they’d have preferred to list by seniority.
- riku_iki 2y ago
  It sounds like he did published some results at pre-LLM era before 2017, and there was silence after that.
katechon 2y ago
Imagine inventing the Adam optimizer just for some guy on Hacker news to accuse you of resume padding