SpaceX’s AI group has laid off about 60 people on Grok Imagine, The Information reports

The Information reports that SpaceX’s AI group, SpaceXSI, laid off roughly 60 people who worked on Grok Imagine in the past week. The report says that leaves only a handful of employees to keep the image and video generation tool running. It cites people familiar with the situation.

The Information published the report on 13 November. Its article is paywalled, so this piece uses the published summary and its post on X.

Grok Imagine is still available to users. The Information’s summary says its future is uncertain without a dedicated team working on it.

The Information says the cuts signal a shift toward AI coding tools and agents as Chinese companies pull ahead in video generation.

Several outlets that summarised the report say SpaceX’s AI business was reorganised into four areas after xAI merged into SpaceX in February: Grok Main and Voice, coding tools, Imagine and Macrohard. Imagine is the area that lost its team.

I haven’t found a public statement about the layoffs from SpaceX or SpaceXSI, and no formal announcement has said what happens to the product.