Sources: SpaceX laid off ~60 Grok Imagine staffers in the past week, leaving a handful to keep the product alive, as it prioritizes AI coding tools and Grok Bot
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Cutting most of the Grok Imagine team while doubling down on coding tools and the core bot is a prioritization call — revenue-adjacent agents over speculative video. If you’re building on a lab’s side product, assume resourcing can vanish overnight and architect for portability.
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