An xAI co-founder resigns warning of live loops within a year

Jimmy Ba, a co-founder of xAI, announced his resignation on X with the warning that recursive self-improvement loops “likely go live in the next 12 months” and that 2026 would be the most consequential year for the species (post). It lands three days after Anthropic’s effectively-100% product code and five weeks after his company’s owner declared the Singularity entered; the next issue records Musk restructuring xAI’s teams after the co-founders’ exit. In the takeoff-declared series it is a dated horizon for live loops from a frontier-lab co-founder, to be set against the eight-months-to-intern-researchers report from OpenAI a month earlier.