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Manuel Kroiss

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Kroiss was one of xAI's original technical co-founders and led pretraining work behind its Grok model family, helping build the data, software and large-scale training systems needed to create frontier language models. He left in 2026; no subsequent substantive affiliation has been verified.

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Previously
2023-2026Co-founder and Head of Pretraining,
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Last editorial review: August 10, 2026