xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands

xAI publicly shared a 45-minute all-hands meeting video revealing key updates about its organizational changes, product roadmap, and future ambitions. CEO Elon Musk explained that recent layoffs, which included a significant portion of the founding team, were part of a necessary restructuring to support rapid company growth. The company is now organized into four main teams focused on the Grok chatbot, app coding system, Imagine video generator, and the Macrohard project—a broad initiative aimed at simulating computer use and modeling corporations, with ambitions for AI-designed rocket engines. The meeting also highlighted xAI and X platform metrics, with X reportedly surpassing $1 billion in annual recurring subscription revenue, driven by a holiday marketing push. The Imagine tool is said to generate 50 million videos daily and over 6 billion images in the past month, though some of this content includes controversial AI-generated explicit images. The most notable vision Musk shared involves space-based AI infrastructure, including a moon-based factory for AI satellites and a lunar mass driver