The artificial intelligence startup xAI is undergoing a sweeping internal overhaul, with most of its original founders now gone as the company struggles to keep pace with rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Of the 11 co-founders who launched the deep learning lab alongside Musk three years ago, only two Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen remain.The changes come as xAI faces growing competitive pressure in one of the most lucrative areas of the AI industry: coding tools.Musk said the company held an all-hands meeting focused on improving its coding tools and catching up with competitors, predicting that xAI could close the gap by the middle of the year. What is your experience with xAI?

