Elon Musk has welcomed Devendra Chaplot, an Indian robotics skilled and AI researcher, to his aerospace agency, SpaceX, and synthetic intelligence enterprise xAI.
In a put up on X, Chaplot shared a photograph with Musk and stated he would be a part of the billionaire’s crew “to build superintelligence.”
I’m becoming a member of SpaceX and xAI, working carefully with Elon and crew to construct superintelligence.
Together SpaceX and xAI mix bodily and digital intelligence below a pacesetter who understands {hardware} on the deepest stage. Add a high-agency tradition with frontier-scale sources, and… pic.twitter.com/tjaPUjGUwK
— Devendra Chaplot (@dchaplot) March 13, 2026
Musk responded to the put up, welcoming Chaplot to xAI.
Welcome to @xAI! https://t.co/5tAdHPJmfx
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 13, 2026
Who Is Devendra Chaplot?
An alumnus of IIT-Bombay, Chaplot has labored within the AI and robotics sector for years. He graduated from IIT-Bombay in 2014 with a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering and a minor in Applied Statistics.
Chaplot accomplished his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University’s Machine Learning Department, the place he labored on Building Intelligent Autonomous Navigation Agents, in keeping with his web site.
Chaplot additionally labored for nearly a yr at Samsung Electronics in South Korea. He later joined Facebook AI Research. As an AI Research Scientist, he labored on the intersection of Computer Vision and Robotics within the agency.
In 2020, the robotics skilled joined Mistral AI, the place he led the Multimodal analysis crew that skilled Pixtral Large and Pixtral 12B. Chaplot additionally centered on coaching Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B & Mistral Large.
He later turned a member of the founding crew of Thinking Machine Labs, an AI analysis and product agency.
The AI skilled has gained a number of awards, together with the Facebook Fellowship in 2020, the CVPR 2020 AI Habitat Object Navigation Challenge and the Best Paper Award in 2018 on the CVPR 2018 Deep Learning for Visual SLAM Workshop, for his analysis over time.
Chaplot joins xAI as a member of their technical employees, his LinkedIn profile revealed.
In his put up, the researcher stated that he has been obsessed together with his areas of research for years, “robotics research to building AI models on the founding teams of Mistral and TML.”
Calling his tenures “extraordinary journeys with extraordinary people”, Chaplot stated he was grateful for all the pieces that led him to the present posts.
