The Information reports about 60 cut
The Information, a U.S. tech news outlet, reported that SpaceX's AI unit (formerly xAI) cut about 60 people from the video generation team for "Grok Imagine." The X account @DeItaone (display name "*Walter Bloomberg"), which posts market news headlines, relayed the report on Nov. 13 U.S. time (11:01:36 p.m. Nov. 13 Japan time). SpaceX and xAI have not made an official announcement about the cuts.
SPACEX’S AI GROUP LAID OFF ROUGHLY 60 EMPLOYEES FROM ITS GROK IMAGINE VIDEO GENERATION TEAM - THE INFORMATION
@DeItaone is a headline account that briefly relays news reports, separate from the official accounts of The Information and SpaceX. The post is a single sentence and does not mention the reason or timing of the cuts or who was affected.
Article text could not be confirmed
According to the link information for the article shared on X, The Information's story is titled "Elon Musk’s AI Group Guts Grok Video Generation Team." When ORIENS tried to retrieve the article page, access was blocked and the text could not be confirmed. Within what ORIENS was able to check, the reason and timing of the cuts, how many people remain, and whether Grok Imagine will continue to be offered are unknown.
No mention on official X accounts
Within what ORIENS checked, the official X accounts of Elon Musk, SpaceX and xAI have not mentioned the cuts. SpaceX's posts since Nov. 13 showed its "Starship" spacecraft being moved to the launch pad, and no posts on Musk's X appear to mention the cuts. xAI's official news page could not be checked because access was blocked.
The company released Grok Bot 1.0, which teams can share, on Nov. 11 (Nov. 12 Japan time). In SpaceX's July-September earnings released Oct. 20, the AI unit posted revenue of $7.56 billion, the largest segment of the company's $14.6 billion total.
