xAI CoFounder Trolls Viral Tent Photo Rumors
xAI co-founder Greg Yang has cheekily shut down viral social media rumors that claimed the company turned its office into a campsite for engineers.
This past week, photos showing rows of tents inside what appeared to be an office space lit up social media. The post alleged that xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup had set up the tents to let engineers sleep onsite in preparation for the highly anticipated July 4 launch of Grok 4, the company’s newest version of its conversational AI.
xAI CoFounder Trolls Viral Tent Photo Rumors
Given Elon Musk’s well-known devotion to extreme work culture including his own habit of sleeping in the office the claim didn’t seem all that far-fetched. Musk himself posted on June 27: “Grinding on Grok all night with xAI team. Good progress.” A month earlier, he bragged about “spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” saying he was “super focused” on xAI, X, and Tesla.
xAI CoFounder Trolls Viral Tent Photo Rumors
So, when a user posted the tent photos and claimed they were from xAI’s headquarters, social media users ran with it, some admiring the commitment, others criticizing the work-life implications.
But Greg Yang wasn’t going to let the rumour slide without adding his own twist. “That’s not our office,” Yang wrote in a post on X. “We have way more tents.”
xAI CoFounder Trolls Viral Tent Photo Rumors
Cue the internet exploding again but this time in laughter.
Behind the jokes, xAI has been making some serious moves. On July 1, Reuters reported that Elon Musk’s AI venture had locked in a $5 billion debt raise, along with a separate $5 billion strategic equity investment. The massive influx of funding is aimed at supercharging the development of AI tools, expanding data center capacity, and fuelling the next phase of the Grok platform.
xAI CoFounder Trolls Viral Tent Photo Rumors
So, while the tent story may be false, the hustle at xAI is very, very real.
