Indian Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher and robotics expert, Devendra Singh Chaplot, has said that he would be joining Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI, to "work closely" with the world's richest man.
"I am joining SpaceX and xAI, working closely with Elon and team to build superintelligence," Chaplot announced in an X post on Saturday.
He wrote that SpaceX and xAI combine physical and digital intelligence under a leader, "who understands hardware at the deepest level."
"Add a high-agency culture with frontier-scale resources, and you get the possibility to achieve something truly unique," he wrote in his X post.
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I'm joining SpaceX and xAI, working closely with Elon and team to build superintelligence.
— Devendra Chaplot (@dchaplot) March 13, 2026
Together SpaceX and xAI combine physical and digital intelligence under a leader who understands hardware at the deepest level. Add a high-agency culture with frontier-scale resources, and… pic.twitter.com/tjaPUjGUwK
Chaplot said he was excited to advance the fields he has obsessed over for years, from robotics to building AI models on the founding teams of Mistral and TML.
"Both were extraordinary journeys with extraordinary people that shaped how I think about building intelligence from the ground up," he expressed in a longish X post, "Grateful for everything that brought me here and can't wait to get started."
His post was retweeted by the xAI boss, Elon Must, who welcomed him to the team. "Welcome to @xAI," Musk wrote in a post.
Welcome to @xAI! https://t.co/5tAdHPJmfx
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 13, 2026
Who is Chaplot?
Chaplot is an engineering graduate from IIT Bombay and has gone on to get a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a founding member at Mistral AI and another leading AI organisation.
Chaplot has been working on developing next-generation AI models at Mistral AI.
Over his career, he has overseen the design of many AI systems that won the CVPR-2019 PointNav and CVPR-2020 ObjectNav, NeurIPS-2022 Rearrangement Habitat Challenges and the Visual-Doom AI Competition 2017.
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He is a Facebook Fellowship Award recipient, and his research has won Best Paper and Best Demo prizes at major AI conferences.
He has also served at Samsung Electronics HQ in South Korea for about a year. He has been featured prominently in major media outlets such as MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, and Popular Science.
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