ITAR: SpaceX is strictly barred by US federal law from hiring non-US persons for aerospace engineering.
National Security Scrutiny: xAI operates under increasing US export and tech-transfer controls regarding China.
Scale: A private company's recruiting budget cannot compete with the sovereign industrial capacity and state-backed talent pipeline of an entire nation.
You had me until:
>The same could be true of a company run by a drug addict.
Elon Musk is nowhere near as capable as millions of intelligent developers in China.