The Information: SpaceX's AI Group Laid Off About 60 People From the Grok Imagine Team

Context

Walter Bloomberg, posting as DeItaone, wrote on November 13 that SpaceX's AI group laid off roughly 60 employees from its Grok Imagine video generation team, citing The Information. The post does not name a source inside the companies, give a date for the cuts or say whether the work is moving to another team. Neither SpaceX nor xAI confirmed the figure in the posts scanned.

Deep dive

Walter Bloomberg, posting as DeItaone, wrote on November 13 that SpaceX's AI group laid off roughly 60 employees from its Grok Imagine video generation team, attributing the report to The Information. The post is a single sentence and does not link The Information's article, name a spokesperson or give a date for the cuts.

The claim should be treated as secondhand reporting via Walter Bloomberg, citing The Information, not as a confirmation from SpaceX or xAI. Neither company posted a response in the posts scanned, and the post does not say whether the people were employees of SpaceX, of xAI or of another entity, or whether the Grok Imagine work is continuing with a smaller staff.

Grok Imagine is the video generation product associated with Grok. The post describes the group as SpaceX's AI group and the team as the Grok Imagine video generation team, and it gives the size of the cut as roughly 60 people. No other figure or official headcount appeared in the scanned posts.

What to expect next

Watch for The Information's full article, for a named company response from SpaceX or xAI, and for any official count of how many people left the Imagine team. If the product's release pace or quality changes, or if the work is moved to another group, that would be a further development to record here. Until a first hand confirmation appears, treat the layoff and the figure of about 60 people as reported by The Information, via Walter Bloomberg.