Indian-origin AI researcher Devendra Chaplot joins Elon Musk's xAI

In the new role, Chaplot will work closely with Musk and the teams at both companies to build superintelligence. Earlier, Chaplot worked in academia, Big Tech, research, and AI startups, with a focus on robotics, embodied AI and LLMs. Part of the founding team at French tech company Mistral AI, Chaplot has contributed to models such as Mistral 7B and Mixtral. He has also worked at Thinking Machines Lab, which works on large-scale training infrastructure and tools for foundation models.