xAI lays off 500 on data annotation team (about a third of 1,500)
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Laid off 500 people from its data annotation team (about a third of the 1,500 in total). Announced it would instead expand specialist AI tutors 10-fold
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Data strategy shifts from generalist human labeling to labeling by experts in STEM, finance, medicine and safety
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