On Wednesday, xAI made a rare public move by releasing a full 45-minute all-hands meeting video on X, making it accessible to anyone with an internet connection. The video, which took place on Tuesday night, had previously been reported on by The New York Times, and its release appears to be a direct response to that coverage. The meeting revealed new details about Elon Musk’s vision for the AI lab, including its evolving product roadmap and ongoing integration with the X platform. One of the most immediate takeaways was the announcement of a wave of departures, which Musk framed as necessary layoffs due to a restructuring of the company’s internal organization. While reorganizations are common in fast-growing startups, the scale of the changes—particularly the exit of a significant portion of the founding team—has sparked confusion and concern among employees and observers. “As a company grows, especially as quickly as xAI, the structure must evolve,” Musk said during the meeting. “This unfortunately required parting ways with some people. We wish them well in future endeavors.” Under the new structure, xAI is divided into four core teams. The first focuses on the Grok chatbot, including its voice capabilities. The second is dedicated to the app’s coding system. The third team is working on Imagine, xAI’s video generation tool. The fourth, led by Toby Pohlen, is tasked with Macrohard—a project aiming to simulate everything a computer can do, from basic tasks to full-scale corporate modeling. “Macrohard is able to do anything on a computer that a computer is able to do,” Pohlen told colleagues. “There should be rocket engines fully designed by AI.” The presentation also included claims about usage and revenue growth. Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, stated that the platform had just crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue from subscriptions, a milestone he attributed to a successful holiday marketing campaign. Executives also shared internal metrics for the Imagine tool, reporting that it generates 50 million videos per day and over 6 billion images in the past 30 days. However, these figures are difficult to assess independently due to the surge in AI-generated explicit content on X during the same period. The platform experienced a spike in engagement driven largely by deepfake pornography, with an estimated 1.8 million sexualized images generated in just nine days—raising serious concerns about content moderation and ethical oversight. The most striking segment of the presentation came at the end, when Musk returned to his long-standing vision of interplanetary AI infrastructure. He reiterated the importance of space-based data centers, despite the technical hurdles. He even outlined plans for a factory on the Moon capable of building and launching AI-powered satellites. Central to this vision is a lunar mass driver—an electromagnetic catapult designed to launch payloads into space with minimal fuel. “With such infrastructure, one could launch an AI cluster capable of capturing significant portions of the sun’s total energy output,” Musk said. “Or even expand to other galaxies.” He paused, then added, “It’s difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about. But it’s going to be incredibly exciting to see it happen.”