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Elon Musk Admits xAI ‘Wasn’t Built Right’—and Is Rebuilding the Company From Scratch

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14.03.2026

Elon Musk Admits xAI ‘Wasn’t Built Right’—and Is Rebuilding the Company From Scratch

Musk reportedly brought in ‘fixers’ from Tesla and SpaceX to audit xAI.

BY BEN SHERRY, STAFF REPORTER @BENLUCASSHERRY

Elon Musk. Photo: Getty Images

Elon Musk says that xAI “wasn’t built right the first time,” and is now being “rebuilt from the foundations up.” 

Musk made the comment in an X post, in reference to the news that two product and engineering leads at AI coding company Cursor, Jason Ginsberg and Andrew Milich, had joined xAI. According to The Information, the pair joined specifically to help the organization catch up to competitors Anthropic and OpenAI in coding. 

The admission from Musk comes just over a month after SpaceX acquired xAI in an........

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