Takeaways from Elon Musks xAI all-hands meeting: Ancient aliens, corporate structure, space catapults
Published: (February 12, 2026 at 01:58 PM EST)
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Source: Mashable Tech
Source: Mashable Tech
xAI splits into teams
The most consequential news from the meeting is that xAI is splitting into four different teams:
- Grok Main & Voice – will handle the Grok chatbot.
- Coding – will maintain the app’s backend systems.
- Imagine – focuses on AI‑generated video capabilities.
- Macrohard – a new Musk project that aims to “simulate” software companies with AI (a play on Microsoft’s name).
X updates and stats
Musk’s social‑media platform, X (formerly Twitter), which was merged with xAI, received several updates:
- X now has 1 billion users and generates $1 billion in annual revenue from X Premium subscriptions.
- Users spend 55 % more time on the app than six months ago, with January marking the platform’s best month ever for user engagement.
- A standalone app for X Chat (the new private‑messaging system) is planned.
- X Money, the cash‑sending app, will begin testing in the coming months.
- X has no plans to display ads on Grok, unlike OpenAI, which began rolling out ads for ChatGPT this month.
Musk’s predictions — and aliens
Elon Musk shared several bold predictions for the combined SpaceX‑xAI entity:
- He wants Earth to harness one million times more solar energy than it currently does, which would require moving “the next step beyond Earth data centers” to Earth‑orbital data centers.
- The acquisition of xAI by SpaceX is intended to help send AI data centers into outer space.
- The next phase involves AI satellite‑building factories on the Moon and a sci‑fi‑esque system to launch those satellites into deep space, essentially a giant catapult on the Moon.
- The combined company aims to build a civilization on the Moon and later on Mars, which Musk now says is 20 years away (previously he claimed 2025).
- Musk concluded with a speculative note:
“Maybe we’ll meet aliens. Maybe we’ll see some civilizations that lasted for millions of years. And we’ll find the remnants of ancient alien civilizations. But the only way we’re gonna do that is if we go out there and we explore. And this is a path to making it happen.”