Ten of xAI's twelve original co-founders have now departed, including Guodong Zhang, who led Grok Code and Grok Imagine. Elon Musk has publicly admitted the company "was not built right first time around" and is rebuilding from the ground up, weeks after SpaceX acquired xAI in the largest M&A deal in history.
A federal judge blocked Perplexity's Comet agent from Amazon's site on March 10. Two days later, the company unveiled Personal Computer, a persistent AI agent running locally on a Mac mini. The two events are not coincidental - they define the strategic dilemma at the center of the agentic web.