Buzzy German AI startup Black Forest Labs is no longer working with Elon Musk’s xAI, Sifted has learned.
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April 3, 2025
Elon Musk’s xAI no longer working with German startup Black Forest Labs
The startup courted controversy helping Musk’s Grok chatbot generate fake images
Miriam Partington and Freya Pratty
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Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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