{"id":45541,"date":"2026-02-16T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/xais-new-macrohard-project-aims-to-design-rocket-engines-using-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:51:10","slug":"xais-new-macrohard-project-aims-to-design-rocket-engines-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/xais-new-macrohard-project-aims-to-design-rocket-engines-using-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"xAI\u2019s new Macrohard project aims to design rocket engines using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dataconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1114626.jpg\" alt=\"xAI\u2019s new Macrohard project aims to design rocket engines using AI\" title=\"xAI\u2019s new Macrohard project aims to design rocket engines using AI\"\/><\/p>\n<p>xAI released a 45\u2011minute all\u2011hands video on X, detailing its product roadmap, organizational changes, and space\u2011based infrastructure plans.<\/p>\n<p>The video, posted Wednesday night, made the internal briefing publicly accessible, a move that followed The New York Times\u2019 earlier coverage of the Tuesday night meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Musk described the recent employee departures as layoffs necessitated by a changing organizational structure as the company expanded rapidly, noting that the adjustments were required to accommodate growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a company grows, especially as quickly as xAI, the structure must evolve,\u201d Musk said on X. \u201cThis unfortunately required parting ways with some people. We wish them well in future endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>xAI was reorganized a few days ago to improve speed of execution. As a company grows, especially as quickly as xAI, the structure must evolve just like any living organism.<\/p>\n<p>This unfortunately required parting ways with some people. We wish them well in future endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>We are\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/kfmSmBlieb<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 11, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The restructuring divides xAI into four primary teams: the Grok chatbot with voice capabilities, the coding system for the app, the Imagine video generator, and the Macrohard project, which spans simple computer simulations to corporate\u2011scale modeling.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grok:<\/strong> Chatbot with voice integration, designed for conversational AI tasks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coding system:<\/strong> App coding system that assists developers in generating code snippets and debugging assistance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Imagine:<\/strong> Video generator that creates AI\u2011driven video content from textual prompts, supporting multiple formats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Macrohard:<\/strong> Project targeting full computer capability simulation, from simple tasks to complex corporate\u2011scale modeling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each team operates semi\u2011independently, reporting to a central leadership council that coordinates cross\u2011functional integration, ensuring that developments in one area can be leveraged by the others.<\/p>\n<p>The departure of many founding members created uncertainty among remaining staff, leading to questions about continuity of key initiatives and the future of ongoing research projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Macrohard] is able to do anything on a computer that a computer is able to do,\u201d Toby Pohlen, who will lead the project under the new organizational structure, told his colleagues. \u201cThere should be rocket engines fully designed by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Bier, X\u2019s head of product, announced that X had just crossed $1\u202fbillion in annual recurring subscription revenue, attributing the milestone to a holiday\u2011season marketing push.<\/p>\n<p>Executives reported that xAI\u2019s Imagine tool generates 50\u202fmillion videos per day and produced over 6\u202fbillion images in the past 30\u202fdays, though the figures are difficult to separate from a surge of deepfake pornography on X during the same period.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Highest Engagement Days on X<\/p>\n<p>Best Monday ever: Today<br \/>Best Sunday ever: Yesterday<br \/>Best Saturday ever: Day before yesterday<br \/>Best Friday ever: Day before that pic.twitter.com\/ZUV8EZnujf<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) January 6, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The platform saw an estimated 1.8\u202fmillion sexualized images generated over a nine\u2011day window, suggesting that a substantial portion of the image\u2011generation count includes explicit content.<\/p>\n<p>Musk reiterated the strategic importance of space\u2011based data centers, then outlined a concept for a lunar factory that would produce AI satellites and launch them via a mass driver, an electromagnetic catapult, proposing that such infrastructure could host an AI cluster capable of harvesting a significant fraction of the sun\u2019s total energy output and, in theory, extending to other galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about,\u201d Musk said, \u201cbut it\u2019s going to be incredibly exciting to see it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured image credit<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xAI released a 45\u2011minute all\u2011hands video on X, detailing its product roadmap, organizational changes, and space\u2011based infrastructure plans. 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