[silvester23]

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

I don't know enough about the AI/ML scene to say if any of these are notable people.

[dagmx]

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]

Chris Szegedy is a big name at least

[katechon]

Imagine inventing the Adam optimizer just for some guy on Hacker news to accuse you of resume padding

[ml-anon]

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]

> 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]

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]

Well the question they were responding to (mine) specifically says “other than Elon”. So it’s very fair to exclude him.