Takeaways from Elon Musk’s xAI all-hands meeting

In the wake of xAI losing two of his co-founders and other prominent employees, Elon Musk held an all-hands meeting at his AI company, which recently merged with EspaceX.

And in an unusual move, xAI job the entire 45-minute meeting online.

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No time to watch or listen? We have you. Here are the main points to remember:

xAI divides into teams

The most important news from the meeting: xAI is divided into four different teams.

“Grok Main & Voice” will manage the Grok chatbot. “Coding” will maintain the backend systems of the applications. “Imagine” is about AI-generated video capabilities.

And then there is “Macrohard”, which is a new Musk project seeking to “simulate” software companies with AI. Macrohard is a play on the name Microsoft, just in case you didn’t know.

Updates and statistics

There was also news regarding Musk’s social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter, which itself merged with xAI.

Nikita Bier, head of X product, said the company has 1 billion users and generates $1 billion in annual revenue from X Premium subscriptions. Users are also spending 55% more time on the app than 6 months ago, Bier claimed, adding that January was the best month in the platform’s history for user engagement.

X plans to launch a standalone app for X Chat, the site’s new private messaging system. X Money, the platform’s money sending app, will also begin testing in the coming months.

Bier also said that X did not intend to display advertisements on Grok. OpenAI began rolling out ads for ChatGPT this month.

Musk’s Predictions — and Aliens

Naturally, Elon Musk had a lot to say – and some big predictions regarding the combined SpaceX and xAI company.

Musk has said he would like the Earth to use a million times more solar energy than it currently does. To achieve this, Musk said, we need to take “the next step beyond terrestrial data centers,” which are “Earth-orbital data centers.”

When SpaceX acquired xAI, Musk’s reasoning was that it would help his plan to send AI data centers into space.

The next step beyond that, Musk said: factories to build AI satellites on the moon and a science fiction system to launch those AI satellites into deep space. Essentially, Musk was talking about building a giant catapult on the moon.

The merged company would then build a civilization on the Moon, then Mars (which is 20 years away, Musk now says, having previously claimed we’d get there by 2025).

All of this could result in humans encountering aliens or discovering ancient extraterrestrial civilizations, Musk concluded.

“Maybe we’ll encounter aliens. Maybe we’ll see civilizations that lasted millions of years. And we’ll find the remains of ancient alien civilizations. But the only way to do that is to go out there and explore. And this is one path to doing that,” Musk said.