Elon Musk’s xAI has begun hiring for roles in London as the firm sets up shop in the UK amid the billionaire’s new-found interest in the country’s politics.

A listing on Companies House says the AI firm founded by the tech billionaire was incorporated in December and will be based in X’s (formerly Twitter’s) office in Piccadilly.

The listing cites Musk, the world’s richest man with a wealth of over $400bn, as a person with significant control, owning 75% or more of the firm’s shares and having majority voting rights.

Jared Birchall, Musk’s wealth manager, is cited as the Chief Financial Officer. Birchall is also the Chief Executive and President of Neuralink, a neurotechnology firm founded by Musk.

Job openings on xAI’s website include software engineers on both the front and backend as well as a site reliability engineer.

Toby Pohlen, a founding member of xAI and former AI researcher at Google’s DeepMind who is thought to be leading the London team, indicated that more positions would open this month.

The move makes xAI the latest major US AI firm to open an office in the UK following in the footsteps of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which in 2023 opened an office in St James’ Park, its first outside the US. Anthropic, creator of the Claude chatbot, also opened an office close to St Paul’s Cathedral in the same year.

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