How come all the departed researchers are Chinese nationals?

This is simply not true. Igor Babuschkin and Christian Szegedy left as well. Only 10 of the 12 remain at this point.

I don't know. Elon Musk personally founded xAI and these were his hand selected cofounders.

	▲	abraxas 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because xAI = Jian-Yang x N. I'm kidding... I think.