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🧠 xAI loses its co-founders
his entire founding team is gone
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xAI just lost its last co-founders 🧠
OpenAI shut down Sora 🎥
SoftBank made a $40B OpenAI bet 💸
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xAI has reportedly lost its final two co-founders, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen.
That means all 11 original co-founders are now out of the company.
These were important operators, not minor team members.
This makes xAI look less like a startup and more like a company fully run by Elon Musk.
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OpenAI is shutting down Sora and its related video products just six months after launch.
That suggests AI video is still hard to turn into a real product.
OpenAI now seems more focused on enterprise, coding, and productivity tools.
This is a reminder that not every AI demo becomes a real business.
SoftBank has taken a new $40 billion loan to fund its OpenAI investment.
The loan lasts only 12 months, which is a very short timeline.
That suggests lenders expect a big liquidity event soon.
In simple terms, this looks like a market bet on an OpenAI IPO in 2026.
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