Musk’s xAI Taps Starlink Staffer to Run Grok Training Team

Elon Musk’s xAI has brought over an executive from SpaceX’s Starlink satellite-internet service to run the team that trains its Grok chatbot, replacing college-aged engineer Diego Pasini, according to an internal note seen by Bloomberg News.

Jack Garabedian, a Starlink engineer who’s been with SpaceX since 2021, will be taking over the human data team at xAI — which includes hundreds of experts that train Grok on a variety of subjects from finance to science — the Monday note said.

He’ll take over from Pasini, who had been at xAI for a year and a half and lists ...