According to the Financial Associated Press on March 16 (Editor Shi Zhengcheng), xAI, which is in the state of "tear down and rebuild", seems to have regarded financial intelligence as one of the focuses of development in the next stage, trying to grab a piece of the pie from competing products such as Anthropic and OpenAI.
As of press time, xAI has posted at least 20 expert recruitment positions in the financial field on its official website, covering positions in securities research, macro research, corporate finance, quantitative trading, cryptocurrency, etc. These experts are expected to "teach" Grok artificial intelligence how to perform financial modeling by providing a series of data, as well as engage in specific work in various financial segments.
Taking "Equity Research Specialist" as an example, the job description states, "You will leverage your deep expertise in capital markets, fundamental analysis, financial modeling, valuation and investment research to create a training environment that simulates the real world and provide high-quality model evaluation, accurate data annotation and detailed input to train and optimize our AI models."
To put it simply, this position mainly provides learning materials for AI, aiming to improve AI’s ability to write stock research reports. xAI requires applicants to have at least 2 years of buy-side or sell-side equity research experience with clear industry coverage responsibilities.
Similarly, “crypto market experts” are required to provide annotations, annotations, evaluations, and expert reasoning across text, voice, and video multimodalities to support model training and benchmarking.
According to a report from the Financial Associated Press last week, as 9 of the "11 Arhats" who co-founded xAI with Musk have left, the world's richest man admitted that xAI is in a state of reconstruction. He also hired two senior employees from the well-known AI programming company Cursor last week to initially show the company's next direction.
As worries about an AI investment bubble are rampant, top developers are increasingly focusing on exploring business opportunities in professional fields. Among them, the financial field with both willingness to pay and ability has become a "must battleground" for military strategists. Both Anthropic and OpenAI have released tools designed to simplify financial work such as market analysis and research reporting, and have even triggered panic selling by traditional software vendors.
For xAI, there is an urgent need to establish revenue growth points. Although the company was valued at $250 billion when it merged with SpaceX last month, most of xAI's revenue so far has come from related transactions in Musk's other ventures, including Tesla and SpaceX.
Returning to the topic of this article, industry elites who are about to apply for xAI’s “financial expert position” will face the leadership of a high school graduate.
It is reported that the person in charge of xAI’s training data is Diego Pasini. Information shows that Pasini received his high school diploma in 2023 and then entered the University of Pennsylvania to study computer science and economics. He entered the company after winning the "hackathon" organized by xAI in January 2025.
At a staff meeting last month, Pasini said that one of the current bottlenecks in developing Grok is training data. Currently Grok relies heavily on data from social network X.
