Chief Engineer and Co-Founder · xAI · 2025
Left xAI and founded Babuschkin Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in AI and agentic systems. xAI launched in 2023 with Elon Musk and 11 other co-founders; most of the original co-founders had departed by early 2026.
Correction: Corrected on 2026-07-22: replaced stale '9 of 11' founder count with dated, sourced language; reclassified contextual pending individual motive evidence.