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Igor Babuschkin
Co-Founder and former Chief Engineer of xAI at xai
Former DeepMind researcher specializing in reinforcement learning who co-founded xAI in 2023. Served as chief engineer and led early technical development of the Grok model. Previously worked on AlphaGo at DeepMind before departing in 2025.
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