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xAI Former Employee's Revelation: Unveiling Internal Management and Cultural Conflicts at Elon Musk's Company =============================================================================================================
xAI Former Employee's Revelation: Unveiling Internal Management and Cultural Conflicts at Elon Musk's Company =============================================================================================================  ### 宝玉
@dotey
xAI 前员工大爆料：我被一条推特逼走了
（注：本推文由 Grok 和 Claude 辅助整理）
马斯克今天发了一条推，说 xAI 第一次没建好，要从头重建。一个叫 Benjamin De Kraker 的前 xAI 员工直接引用了这条推，撕开了一整段往事。这条帖子 80 万浏览，快 9000 个赞，评论区吵翻了。
事情要分两段吃。
【1】第一口瓜：排名风波（2025 年 2 月）
De Kraker 是 xAI 的 Human Data 团队成员，级别不高，但在 X 上有不少 AI 圈粉丝。
2025 年 2 月 8 日，他发了一条推，列了一个"编程能力排名（个人意见）"：
ChatGPT o1-pro / o1 / o3-mini 并列第一
Grok 3（expected, tbd）
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
DeepSeek
GPT-4o
Grok 2
Gemini 2.0 Pro Series
这条推 540 万浏览。
注意关键词：Grok 3 (expected, tbd)，也就是"预计会出，待定"。
然后 xAI 找上门了：要么删帖，要么走人。
理由是什么？他"泄露了 Grok 3 的存在"。
问题是，马斯克本人早在 1 月 3 日就公开说过 Grok 3 预训练完成了，用了比 Grok 2 多 10 倍的算力。xAI 官方博客也提过 Grok 3。一个老板亲口在社交媒体上反复提过的东西，一个基层员工写了一句"Grok 3 (tbd)"就算泄密？
De Kraker 拒绝删帖，选择辞职。他在辞职声明里说：一个号称捍卫言论自由的公司，要因为一条标注了"个人意见"的推文开除一个基层员工，这太荒谬了。
更魔幻的是，马斯克本人看到这件事后回复了两个字："That's weird"（挺奇怪的）。
但也仅此而已。没有后续，没有复职，什么都没发生。
【2】第二口瓜：今天的大爆料（2026 年 3 月 13 日）
一年多以后的今天，马斯克发推说 xAI 要推倒重建，De Kraker 直接引用并讲了一个更早的故事。
他刚入职 xAI 的时候非常兴奋。面试和入职时，公司反复强调两件事："我们要主动出击的人"和"我们是扁平组织"。
于是他发了一条推文，向自己的 AI 圈粉丝征集"怎么让 Grok 变得更好"的建议。John Carmack（DOOM 之父，马斯克的私人朋友，100 万粉丝）转发了这条推，大量高质量建议涌入。De Kraker 甚至写了脚本来收集整理这些意见，打算做成报告提交给上级。
第二天早上，主管发了一封措辞严厉的邮件：你搞砸了，以后绝对不许再公开征集改进 Grok 的建议，这不是你的工作。
他的 X 账号被公司暂停了。那些病毒式传播的帖子被要求全部删除，成百上千条来自真实用户的改进建议就这么没了。
De Kraker 说，类似的事在 xAI 反复发生。新员工带着热情进来，然后被中层管理者浇灭。号称扁平组织，实际上中层经理一层又一层。他原话是：这是他待过的最有"大公司病"的地方之一。
他补了一句：当初那个主管已经走了，他认识的 xAI 老人也全走了。
【3】评论区的战争
这条帖子的评论区形成了两派。
支持 De Kraker 的人认为，xAI 名不副实，嘴上说着言论自由和扁平管理，实际上是中层管理者的天下，连一条个人意见都容不下。
反对的一方也不少。有人在底下回复他说：你在讨论一个未发布的模型的性能排名，这是在利用内部信息评价公司的产品，你觉得这没问题？还有人更直接地说：你把自家还没发布的产品排在竞争对手后面，你不觉得这对雇主有影响吗？
其中一条高赞回复说：你一直拒绝承认自己有错，难怪他们让你走。
De Kraker 的回应倒是很坚持：排名是我的个人意见，Grok 3 还没出，所以标了"tbd"，而且 Grok 3 的存在根本不是秘密。他还在最新的帖子里加了一句：Grok 到现在编程能力还是落后的。
【4】吃瓜要点
几个值得注意的细节：
第一，De Kraker 说的是不是全貌，不好说。一年前辞职时是"排名泄密"的叙事，今天又加了一个"征集建议被打压"的故事，两件事的时间线和因果关系在帖子里没有完全厘清。
第二，马斯克今天那条"xAI 第一次没建好要重建"的推文，等于官方承认了 xAI 内部确实有问题，这给了 De Kraker 一个完美的"你看我说的吧"的时机。
第三，反对者的质疑也有道理：不管 Grok 3 是不是公开信息，作为员工把自家产品排在对手后面公开发出来，从雇主角度看确实不太体面。况且他有内部 access，外界很难分清哪些是"个人观感"，哪些是基于内部测试数据的判断。
第四，马斯克一年前亲自回复了"that's weird"，但什么都没做。这可能说明那件事确实不是他本人授意的，但他也没打算为一个基层员工和管理层对着干。
一个人的遭遇能不能代表整个公司的文化？不一定。
但马斯克自己说了"xAI 需要推倒重建"，再配合这个前员工的故事，xAI 的内部管理问题大概率不是个例。Show More
#### Benjamin De Kraker
@BenjaminDEKR · 1d ago
Here is an xAI story.
When I was first hired (low level) by xAI, I was extremely excited. I greatly admired Elon and what Grok could be.
I have a pretty cool AI following here on X. Some big names see my stuff, including Elon himself (at the time).
Lex, Beff, Andreessen, Aravind, many others.
During the interview and onboarding for xAI, they made a big deal about wanting people who "take initiative" and think outside the box. Ok...
So, some of the biggest names in tech follow me on X. I decided to ask for ideas and feedback on how Grok (then still early at version 2) could be improved.
I asked my followers on X for the best "how can we make Grok awesome?" ideas, and was going to collect them (organized by Grok himself) into a big report for my boss(es) and ultimately, Elon.
(xAI makes a big deal about how it's a "flat structure" also. You're supposed to be empowered to act on good ideas.)
Well, my post got way more attention than I expected - great! Ideas to improve Grok poured in! I built a script to collect and sort all these great ideas to make xAI's core product better.
John Carmack (personal friend of Elon, creator of Doom, id software, legend) retweeted it. Carmack has 1M followers.
There were so many great ideas on how to improve Grok! I was collecting them and excited. Until.......
I woke up the next day to a threatening email from my main supervisor* at xAI, telling me I had messed up, that I was NEVER to ask for ideas to improve Grok ever again, that it wasn't my job (I thought our job was to improve Grok.)
They suspended my account on X. They never explained why. It was obviously related to my post about improving Grok.
I was told to delete those posts which had gone viral. I had to delete all the hundreds (thousands?) of genuinely good ideas for improving Grok that had poured in by users on X, because it stepped on someone's toes.
It made me confused and sad. Incidents like this happened often, where xAI employees would come in full of excitement and enthusiasm, and would have it stomped out by managers who hated ideas.
They filled xAI with middle managers and busybodies. It was one of the most DEI and corporate-y places I've ever worked. I came in wanting Elon and xAI to win and left just sad.
*That manager is gone, for what it's worth.
Everyone I knew at xAI is gone.Show More
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Through the perspective of former employee Benjamin De Kraker, this reveals severe contradictions at xAI between free speech, flat management, and middle-management bureaucracy.
Summary
This post deeply compiles and analyzes former xAI employee Benjamin De Kraker's "big revelation" regarding the company's internal management. The content primarily revolves around two core conflicts: first, in 2025, the employee was forced to resign for posting a personal model ranking on X that included Grok 3 (allegedly a leak), despite Elon Musk having publicly mentioned the model earlier; second, an early attempt to solicit product improvement suggestions via social media was severely suppressed by middle management. The post further analyzes the gap between xAI's proclaimed "flat organization" and the actual "big company syndrome" it exhibits, and in conjunction with Musk's recent remarks about "rebuilding xAI," discusses potential issues in the company's management culture.
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