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EPISODE · Jun 18, 2026 · 7 MIN

A Godfather of AI Called Musk's xAI a 'Failure' | AI News

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Yann LeCun told CNBC that xAI is 'kind of a failure' — all 11 co-founders are gone, the AI segment lost $2.5 billion in one quarter, and its data center now rents compute to the competition. KPMG retracted a flagship AI report after 40 of 45 citations were fake. And ChatGPT dropped below 50% market share for the first time.

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