On Wednesday, xAI took the unusual step of publishing the entire 45-minute all-hands meeting video on X, making it publicly accessible. Details of Tuesday night’s meeting were previously reported by the New York Times, and may have influenced xAI’s decision to post the video online.
The entire video reveals important new details about Musk’s AI Lab plans, including the product roadmap and continued relationship with the X Platform.
The most direct revelation concerns a series of employee departures, which Musk described as layoffs due to changes in the company’s organizational structure. While reorganizations are common, their widespread departures have caused significant disruption, especially since it means losing a significant portion of the founding team.
“As companies grow, especially as they grow as quickly as xAI, the structure has to evolve as well,” Musk told X. “Unfortunately, this has required us to part ways with some people. We wish them all the best in their future endeavours.”
The new organizational system divides xAI into four main teams. One team focuses on the Grok chatbot (including voice), another on the app’s coding system, another on the Imagine video generator, and finally a team focused on Macrohard projects that range from simple computer usage simulations to enterprise-wide modeling.
Toby Pollen, who is leading the project under the new organizational structure, told colleagues that “[Macrohard]can do anything on a computer that can be done on a computer.” “There should be rocket engines designed entirely by AI.”
The all-hands-on also featured claims about new usage and revenue numbers for xAI and X. Nikita Via, head of product at X, said that X’s annual recurring revenue from subscriptions “just passed $1 billion,” which he attributed to holiday marketing efforts.
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Additionally, executives said that xAI’s Imagine tool generates 50 million videos per day and more than 6 billion images in the past 30 days, according to internal metrics.
But it’s hard to distinguish these numbers from the deluge of deepfake porn that hit X around the same time. As explicit AI-generated images become more prevalent, engagement on the X platform has skyrocketed. With an estimated 1.8 million sexual images generated in just nine days, the image generation figures likely include a significant amount of this controversial content.
The most striking part of the presentation was at the end, where Musk reiterated the importance of space-based data centers, despite the technical challenges. Musk went further and envisioned a moon-based AI satellite factory that would include a lunar mass driver (essentially an electromagnetic catapult) to launch AI satellites. With such infrastructure, Musk said, it would be possible to launch an AI cluster that could capture a significant portion of the sun’s total energy output or extend it to other galaxies.
“It’s hard to imagine what an intelligence of this magnitude would think, but it would be incredibly exciting to see it happen,” Musk said.
