Indian-origin artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Devendra Singh Chaplot has joined Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI, one of the latest senior hires in the billionaire’s expanding AI ambitions. In a post on X, Chaplot said he will work closely with Musk and the teams at both companies “to build superintelligence,” as SpaceX and xAI move to integrate AI more tightly with hardware.Before this appointment, Chaplot worked across academia, Big Tech, research, and AI startups, with a focus on robotics, embodied AI, and large language models (LLMs). He was part of the founding team at French tech company Mistral AI, contributing to models such as Mistral 7B and Mixtral, and was also at Thinking Machines Lab (TML), which works on large-scale training infrastructure and tools for foundation models. Is America taking aware the best of the best for AI ?
