# Three Indian-origin engineers have been appointed to major leadership roles at Elon Musk's xAI.

*robotics · news · 2026-04-09 · Free Press Journal*

## Key points

- xAI is merging with SpaceX ahead of a planned IPO.
- Three Indian-origin engineers have been appointed to lead xAI's core AI development teams.
- Devendra Chaplot will head pre-training operations, leveraging experience from Mistral AI and Thinking Machines Lab.
- Aman Madaan is responsible for model infrastructure, with expertise in feedback-driven language model improvements.
- Aditya Gupta will oversee post-training and reinforcement learning, bringing experience from Google Bard and Essential AI.

**Companies:** SpaceX, xAI
**Countries:** India, United States

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