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xAI

HQ Palo Alto, USFounded 2023late stageWebsite @xai
Composite score
80.0
rank #2 · risers

A top-2 Riser. Headcount up 16% over the last 90 days.

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Headcount
6.4k
+15.0%
90d change
+16.1%
Funding events (90d)
0
12 all-time tracked
Layoff events (90d)
0

headcount + trends: LinkedIn-tracked weekly series · funding & layoff counts: through Jul 2026 (frozen) + live news extraction

Signals

source: PDL v25
Inferred revenue
$1B-$10B
PDL estimate
Revenue / employee
$861k
midpoint ÷ headcount
12-month turnover
43.1%
high — churn risk
Average tenure
1.0 yrs
Time since last raise
8 mo
recent raise

Hiring flow · xAI

source: PDL v25

Headcount by role

12-month growth · PDL v25
Engineering
916
+63%
Education
564
-9%
Operations
114
+58%
Finance
113
+293%
Analyst
56
-2%
Human Resources
56
+37%
Legal
44
+63%
Creative
35
+12%
Other
192

In the news

relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days
  1. DecryptHeadline7d ago
    ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Outages Leave Users Asking How to Work Without AI

    Grok outage is a primary subject; company confirmed and resolved service disruption.

  2. The VergeHeadline7d ago
    ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down at the same time

    Grok experienced a service outage affecting Android, iOS, and web platforms alongside ChatGPT and Claude.

  3. Decrypt8d ago
    Top Pentagon AI Official Sold Millions in Perplexity Stock, Disclosures Show

    Significant role in ethics narrative; Michael's January sale and Pentagon's classified-network deal highlighted.

  4. TechCrunchHeadline10d ago
    The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok

    xAI's Grok is a primary subject; Pentagon deployed Grok for Government to 3M military/civilian users.

  5. The Verge13d ago
    Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution

    xAI cited as example of data center facing permitting scrutiny; mentioned for unpermitted gas turbines at Colossus 1 facility.

  6. TechCrunch19d ago
    Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

    xAI included in Guidelight's study of AI containment plans; minor subject among five labs assessed.

  7. TechCrunch21d ago
    Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

    Article focuses on a technical glitch affecting xAI's Grok chatbot causing gibberish responses to users.

  8. DecryptHeadline24d ago
    Minnesota Says xAI's Grok Created 'Marketplace for Digital Sexual Violence'

    Article is entirely about Minnesota's legal challenge to xAI's Grok Imagine for generating non-consensual sexual images.

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Events

Funding · series e · $20B
8mo ago
Funding · secondary market · $300K
9mo ago
Layoff · 6.67% (144 roles)
Departures in 2025-11: 199 vs 6-mo baseline of 54.5 (3.65× spike). Derived from PDL.
10mo ago
Funding · series unknown · $96M
11mo ago
Layoff · 6.77% (142 roles)
Departures in 2025-09: 181 vs 6-mo baseline of 38.5 (4.7× spike). Derived from PDL.
1y ago
Funding · series unknown · $5.3B
1y ago
Funding · debt financing · $5.0B
1y ago
Funding · series unknown · $56M
1y ago
Funding · series unknown · $28M
2y ago
Funding · series c · $6.0B
2y ago
Funding · series b · $6.0B
2y ago
Funding · series unknown · $3M
2y ago

Score history

2026-09-07
80.0
rank #2
2026-08-31
72.1
rank #4
2026-08-24
67.9
rank #9
2026-08-17
38.9
rank #37
2026-08-10
30.5
rank #37
2026-08-03
16.8
rank #37
2026-07-27
13.4
rank #39
2026-07-20
17.0
rank #36
2026-07-13
20.5
rank #36
2026-07-06
18.7
rank #35
2026-06-29
38.0
rank #31
2026-06-22
38.0
rank #31