Xai’s Cfo Is The Latest Executive To Leave The Elon Musk’s Ai Firm

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1:27 PM PDT · September 3, 2025

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  • Rebecca Bellan

Mike Liberatore, xAI’s main financial officer, has near nan company, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. This marks nan latest successful a drawstring of high-profile executive departures. 

The erstwhile Airbnb executive joined nan institution successful April and near astir nan extremity of July, per WSJ.

While astatine xAI, he helped orchestrate nan company’s $5 cardinal indebtedness raise, alongside different $5 cardinal successful equity — almost half of which came from SpaceX. He besides oversaw immoderate of nan Elon Musk-owned AI firm’s information halfway description successful Memphis. 

Liberatore’s departure comes aft xAI’s wide counsel, Robert Keele, near successful August — a small complete a twelvemonth connected nan job. Raghu Rao, a elder lawyer, near astir nan aforesaid clip arsenic Keele and Liberatore, per WSJ. Igor Babuschkin, an xAI co-founder, announced his departure past month, saying he near nan institution to motorboat his ain VC patient dedicated to AI information research.

Linda Yaccarino, erstwhile CEO of X, besides resigned successful July pursuing concerning behaviour from Grok, xAI’s chatbot that tin beryllium accessed done X. xAI acquired X successful precocious March.

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