# xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin surfaces a personalized-AI company

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/xai-cofounder-igor-babuschkin-personalized-ai-startup>
> Published: 2026-06-10 21:29:34+00:00

Igor Babuschkin, identified by Bloomberg Technology as a co founder of xAI, has unveiled a new company focused on personalized artificial intelligence, Bloomberg reported on June 10. The reported move puts one of the original names behind Elon Musk (@elonmusk)'s AI lab into a different part of the market: not the public race to ship ever larger frontier models, but the less defined fight to make AI systems useful to individual users. That founder pedigree is the core signal. xAI has been buil...