xAI's legal lead, Robert Keele, has left the job just over a year of taking over the role.

Keele said that he is stepping down spend time with his two toddlers whom he doesn't get to see enough, he said in a LinkedIn post, indicating his work-life balance was cast off the window working at xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup.

"The job was a dream, the team, incredible. Working with Elon on this tech, at this time, was the adventure of a lifetime. Although there's daylight between our worldviews, his vision, commitment, and smarts blew me away on the daily," he explained.

"But I couldn't keep riding two horses at once--the family and the job. Time to pick one," he added.

Keele had joined xAI in May last year. At that time he had just launched his own fractional legal outfit but had joined Musk's company saying that he "couldn't pass up an opportunity to run legal at xAI".

Prior to xAI, Keele had worked at companies such as Elroy Air, Acubed and Voom, an Airbus company.

After Keele joined, xAI raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round in May from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital at $24 billion valuation.

Earlier in March this year, xAI acquired Musk's social media platform X.

Last month, xAI launched the newest version of its AI chatbot, Grok 4, after its previous version went rogue with anti-Semitic remarks.

Last month, X CEO Linda Yaccarino also stepped down from her role.