On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing a full video of the 45-minute all-hands meeting on X, making it publicly accessible. Details of Tuesday night’s meeting were previously reported by the New York Timeswhich may have influenced xAI’s decision to post the video online.
The full video reveals important new details about Musk’s plans for the AI lab, including its product roadmap and its continued ties to the X platform.
The most immediate revelation involved a series of employee departures, which Musk described as layoffs stemming from a changing organizational structure at the company. While reorganizations are common, the scope of the departures has caused considerable confusion, particularly as it has resulted in the loss of a significant portion of the founding team.
“As a company grows, especially as fast as xAI, the structure has to evolve,” Musk said told X. “This unfortunately required parting ways with some people. We wish them well in future endeavors.”
The new organizational system divides xAI into four main teams: one focused 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 the Macrohard project, which spans from simple computer usage simulation to modeling entire companies.
“[Macrohard] it’s able to do anything on a computer that a computer can do,” Toby Pohlen, who will lead the project under the new organizational structure, told his colleagues. “There should be rocket engines completely designed by AI.”
The all-hands also presented claims of new usage and revenue figures for xAI and X. Nikita Bier, X’s chief product officer, said X had “just topped” $1 billion in annual recurring subscription revenue, which he attributed to a marketing push during the holidays.
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In addition, the 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 their internal measurements.
But it is difficult to separate these figures from the flood of deeply fake pornography that overtook X during the same period. The X platform saw the engagement skyrocket as clear AI-generated images became more prevalent and with an estimated 1.8 million sexual images created in just nine days, the image creation numbers likely include significant amounts of this controversial content.
The most impressive part of the presentation came at the end, when Musk reiterated the importance of space-based data centers despite the technical challenges. Musk went even further, envisioning a Moon-based factory for artificial intelligence satellites, including a lunar mass driver—essentially an electromagnetic catapult—to launch them. With such an infrastructure, Musk said, one could launch a swarm of artificial intelligence capable of capturing significant portions of the sun’s total energy output or even expanding to other galaxies.
“It’s hard to imagine what an intelligence of this scale would come up with,” Musk said, “but it will be incredibly exciting to see it happen.”
