xAI在全员公开会议上阐述了其星际探索的宏伟蓝图。

内容来源:https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/xai-lays-out-interplanetary-ambitions-in-public-all-hands/
内容总结:
当地时间周三,埃隆·马斯克旗下的人工智能公司xAI罕见地在社交平台X上公开了长达45分钟的内部全员会议视频。此举被认为与《纽约时报》此前对此次会议的报道有关。视频内容披露了xAI未来发展的多项关键信息,包括产品路线图及其与X平台的持续协同。
会议中,马斯克证实公司近期进行了组织架构调整,并因此裁减了部分员工,其中甚至包括多名创始团队成员。他表示,随着xAI的快速发展,组织结构必须相应演进,此次调整虽导致人员变动,但公司祝愿离职员工前程似锦。
根据新的架构,xAI将分为四个主要团队:分别专注于Grok聊天机器人(含语音功能)、应用编码系统、Imagine视频生成器,以及名为“宏硬”(Macrohard)的综合性项目。该项目负责人托比·波伦向同事介绍,“宏硬”旨在模拟人类在计算机上的所有操作能力,甚至展望了“未来应由AI完全设计火箭发动机”的愿景。
会议还公布了xAI与X平台的最新运营数据。X平台产品负责人尼基塔·比尔称,平台订阅服务的年经常性收入“刚刚突破”10亿美元,并将其归因于假日期间的营销推广。此外,xAI高管透露,其Imagine工具目前日均生成5000万个视频,过去30天内生成的图像数量超过60亿张。
然而,这些惊人的数据背后存在争议。同期X平台上充斥着大量AI生成的深度伪造色情内容,仅九天内就产生了约180万张色情图像,这很可能被计入上述图像生成数据中,导致其实际业务构成受到质疑。
最引人注目的是马斯克在会议尾声提出的太空计算愿景。他重申了建设天基数据中心的重要性,并进一步描绘了在月球建立AI卫星工厂的蓝图,包括使用电磁弹射器(“月球质量加速器”)发射卫星。马斯克设想,由此构建的AI集群将能捕获太阳输出的绝大部分能量,甚至为向其他星系扩张提供可能。“难以想象那种规模的智能体会思考什么,”马斯克表示,“但见证其实现将无比激动。”
中文翻译:
周三,xAI罕见地在X平台上发布了长达45分钟的全员会议视频,向公众公开。这场周二晚间会议的细节此前已由《纽约时报》报道,这可能促使xAI决定将视频公之于众。
完整视频揭示了马斯克对这家AI实验室规划的重要新细节,包括其产品路线图及其与X平台的持续关联。最直接的信息涉及一系列离职员工,马斯克将其归因于公司组织结构调整导致的裁员。虽然重组很常见,但如此大规模的离职引发了巨大困惑,尤其这意味着创始团队的相当一部分人员流失。
"随着公司发展,尤其是像xAI这样快速成长的企业,组织结构必须进化,"马斯克在X平台上表示,"这不幸地意味着要与部分同事分道扬镳。我们祝愿他们未来一切顺利。"
新组织体系将xAI划分为四个核心团队:专注于Grok聊天机器人(含语音功能)的团队、负责应用编码系统的团队、开发Imagine视频生成器的团队,以及致力于Macrohard项目的团队——该项目涵盖从简单计算机使用模拟到整个企业建模的广泛领域。
"Macrohard能够执行计算机可完成的任何操作,"在新架构下领导该项目的托比·波伦向同事阐述,"未来应当出现完全由AI设计的火箭发动机。"
会议还披露了xAI与X平台的最新使用数据和营收情况。X平台产品负责人尼基塔·比尔表示,平台订阅业务年经常性收入"刚刚突破"10亿美元大关,并将其归功于假日季的营销推动。
此外,高管们透露根据内部指标,xAI的Imagine工具目前日均生成5000万条视频,过去30天累计生成超过60亿张图像。但这些数据难以与同期席卷X平台的深度伪造色情内容浪潮割裂看待。随着AI生成露骨图像日益泛滥,X平台互动量激增——仅九天内就产生了约180万张色情图像,这意味着前述图像生成数据很可能包含大量争议性内容。
演示中最引人注目的部分出现在尾声,马斯克重申了太空数据中心的重要性,尽管面临技术挑战。他更进一步描绘了月球AI卫星工厂的蓝图,包括配备电磁弹射器(即月球质量加速器)的发射系统。马斯克表示,借助此类基础设施,人类将能部署可捕获太阳总能量输出相当比例、甚至能向其他星系扩张的AI集群。
"难以想象那种规模的智能体会思考什么,"马斯克总结道,"但见证其实现必将激动人心。"
英文来源:
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing a full 45-minute all-hands meeting video on X, making it publicly accessible. Details of the Tuesday night meeting were previously reported by The New York Times, which may have influenced xAI’s decision to post the video online.
The full video reveals significant new details about Musk’s plans for the AI lab, including its product roadmap and its ongoing ties to the X platform.
The most immediate revelation concerned a string of departing employees, which Musk described as layoffs resulting from a changing organizational structure at the company. While reorganizations are common, the breadth of the departures has caused significant confusion, particularly as it has meant the loss of a significant portion of the founding team.
“As a company grows, especially as quickly as xAI, the structure must evolve,” Musk said on X. “This unfortunately required parting ways with some people. We wish them well in future endeavors.”
The new organizational system splits xAI into four primary teams: one focused on the Grok chatbot (including voice), another for the app’s coding system, another for the Imagine video generator, and finally a team focused on the Macrohard project, which spans from simple computer use simulation to modeling entire corporations.
“[Macrohard] is able to do anything on a computer that a computer is able to do,” Toby Pohlen, who will lead the project under the new organizational structure, told his colleagues. “There should be rocket engines fully designed by AI.”
The all-hands also featured claims about new usage and revenue figures for xAI and X. Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said X had “just crossed” $1 billion in annual recurring revenue from subscriptions, which he attributed to a marketing push during the holidays.
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Additionally, executives said the xAI’s Imagine tool is generating 50 million videos a day, and more than 6 billion images over the past 30 days, according to their internal metrics.
But it’s difficult to separate those figures from the flood of deepfake pornography that overtook X during that same period. The X platform saw engagement skyrocket as AI-generated explicit images became more prevalent, and with an estimated 1.8 million sexualized images generated over just nine days, the image-generation figures likely include substantial amounts of this controversial content.
The most eye-catching part of the presentation came at the end, when Musk reemphasized the importance of space-based data centers despite the technical challenges involved. Musk went still further, envisioning a moon-based factory for AI satellites, including a lunar mass driver — essentially an electromagnetic catapult — to launch them. With such infrastructure, Musk said, one could launch an AI cluster capable of capturing significant portions of the sun’s total energy output or even expanding to other galaxies.
“It’s difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about,” Musk said, “but it’s going to be incredibly exciting to see it happen.”
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