xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
Key Points:
- xAI publicly released a 45-minute all-hands meeting video revealing new details about Elon Musk’s AI lab, including its product roadmap and ongoing ties to the X platform, likely in response to prior media coverage.
- The company announced significant layoffs as part of a restructuring, splitting into four teams focused on the Grok chatbot, app coding, the Imagine video generator, and the ambitious Macrohard project aimed at simulating complex computer and corporate functions.
- xAI executives reported that X recently surpassed $1 billion in annual recurring subscription revenue, with the Imagine tool generating 50 million videos daily and over 6 billion images in the past month, though much of this volume includes controversial AI-generated explicit content.
- Musk highlighted his vision