Flat management can see a qualitative shift in three months, but the electricity burned by computing power that’s spinning in idle mode is real money— is Musk’s technical centralization an accelerator or a tight headband spell?

According to some monitoring, Ethan He, the former head of the world model at xAI, left due to the frequent adjustments in the business priorities and goals of the startup large model company, making it difficult to align long-term cutting-edge research with short-term commercial delivery. He plans to shift towards foundational exploration of language models that cannot currently be carried out at xAI. The Colossus GPU cluster is extremely costly, and idle computing power causes huge financial pressure, increasing R&D anxiety. The video team launched Grok Imagine 0.9 in three months, achieving a qualitative leap through flat management and data flow correction. Ethan also mentioned that Elon Musk is highly involved in technical decision-making and participates in closed-door seminars he convenes.