- XAI plans to add thousands of “AI tutors” this year, three employees at BI said.
- The company currently employs more than 900 tutors who generally work on the training of Grok, the Xai chatbot.
- The job ramp arrives while Musk’s company is trying to gain an advantage in the AI arms race.
XAI plans to hire thousands of people this year to help train your Grok chatbot, three employees said in Business Insider, while trying to gain an advantage in AI’s arms race with Openai, Meta and Google.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence society has five jobs lists For the roles of data annotation, looking for bilingual workers and legal specialists and STEM. The employees said that managers had informed managers of the rise of hiring.
XAI uses more than 900 data annotators, which he calls “AI tutors”, according to a statement of the company’s internal relaxation. He brought hundreds of tutors in preparation for the November presidential election, according to six current and old employees. The workers asked to stay anonymous to avoid professional reprisals.
Musk has repeatedly stressed the potential of the AI, and he used his startup to travel The Industry War on financing, talent and power. Last year, the company built what Musk called the The largest supercomputer in the world In Memphis, Tennessee, and he launched Grok as an autonomous application in January. XAI said in its last financing round that the company had lifted $ 6 billion.
Monday, Musk and a group of investors submitted an offer of $ 97.4 billion Buy the non -profit organization which controls OpenAi; The CEO Sam Altman said that the company was “not for sale”.
XAI representatives did not respond to a request for comments.
Inside the daily work of an XAI tutor
Data annotators play a crucial role in the development of important language models. By labeling, categorizing and contextualizing raw data, they teach chatbots like Grok to understand the world.
Tutors worked on various projects at XAI, in particular by improving Grok’s ability to generate images. To help him understand the vocal commands, they register in noisy environments and analyze the chatbot transcriptions. Three workers said the company is working to extend the staff of staff who can train Grok in different languages.
In addition, four workers said the tutors focused on teaching in Grok to understand, summarize and provide a context to publications and images on X. (XAI deployed this update in December.)
“Sometimes projects take months; sometimes it is only a few days, then you receive a message from a team leader who moved you to a new project,” said a worker. “Sometimes it’s a drop-all situation.”
At XAI, tutors operate on six -month contracts as full -time time used, according to publications and conversations with workers. They work in tandem with engineers, but data annotators use a separate relaxation, called Teachx, and have different messaging areas, said six current and old employees.
In Teachx, AI tutors are divided into several specialized groups, including stem, coding and translation, as well as a much larger group of AI general tutors.
The job lists indicate that workers can earn $ 35 to $ 65 an hour and can be promoted in team head roles in a few months.
Six current and former workers have said that if most tutors operate at home, they are supervised using a system called Starfleet Academy which predicts time that workers should spend for each task, monitors their time of screen And allows quality insurance workers to note their work. Three employees said workers usually take three to 10 minutes on a given task.
Four workers said tutors could be invited to justify their choices and could be marked if a quality insurance worker does not agree with them.
“Most of the time, Starfleet is a way to make sure we don’t move too fast,” said a worker. “Sometimes it can become monotonous or you can numb to return between the prompts.”
Data annotators are crucial for technology industry
The tutors seem to compensate most of the XAI workforce. An examination of LinkedIn profiles suggests that the company has approximately 100 non -contrary employees, including engineers and technical employees.
Unlike most AI companies, which often use third -party employment agencies, XAI directly engages its American tutors. Otto Kässi, work economist at Oxford University, said this model allows the company to have more control over tutor’s work and could offer greater data security.
XAI is far from being the only company based on an army of data annotators.
Tesla, manufacturer of Musk electric vehicles, employs Hundreds of internal data annotators To train its complete autonomous software. Companies love Aberrant.aiThe scale of AI, Superannotate and Book also provides annotators for large technological companies, notably Meta and Nvidia. OPENAI, which Musk helped to found before resigning from the board of directors in 2018, used third -party agencies that can hire workers from developing countries.
“The most important thing is the quantity of data,” an AI of AI from the University of Stanford. “Then you just need enough people to annotate this data.”
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