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Devendra Chaplot to join Musk's SpaceX and xAI
An IIT Bombay alumnus, Chaplot holds a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Sat, 14, Mar 2026
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Elon Musk (left) with Devendra Chaplot / Devendra Chaplot via X
Indian-origin tech leader and one of the founding team members of Thinking Machines Lab, Devendra Singh Chaplot, announced plans to join SpaceX and xAI, working closely with billionaire founder Elon Musk on developing superintelligence.
Chaplot, an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay-trained engineer, joined Thinking Machines Lab in early 2025. He also has experience working as a research scientist at Mistral AI and the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Lab.
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Talking about the new role, Chaplot announced on X, “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 you get the possibility to achieve something truly unique.”
Sharing his excitement, he added, “I’m excited to advance the fields I’ve obsessed over for years, from robotics research 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.”
Chaplot, a Palo Alto resident, holds a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University. He has led the design of several AI systems that won the CVPR 2019 PointNav and CVPR 2020 ObjectNav, NeurIPS 2022 Rearrangement Habitat Challenges and the Visual-Doom AI Competition 2017.
Chaplot is also a recipient of the Facebook Fellowship Award, and his research has received Best Paper and Best Demo awards at leading AI conferences.
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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
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