A former OpenAI and xAI staffer says he burned out in AI labs, so he's quitting and going back to Vietnam

"I cannot believe I would say this one day, but I am burnt out," said a former OpenAI and xAI staffer who's returning to his home country of Vietnam.

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• A former OpenAI and xAI staffer says he's quitting frontier AI labs due to burnout.
• Hieu Pham said in a post on X that he would return to his home country, Vietnam, to "heal."
• "I cannot believe I would say this one day, but I am burnt out," Pham said.

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