Gate News reports that on March 13, xAI Omni team technical lead Haotian Liu posted on social media stating he has left xAI earlier this week. Haotian Liu previously independently led the development of the Grok Imagine v0.9 & v1 (image + video generation) projects.

A former xAI employee, Benjamin De Kraker, detailed his experience at the company, emphasizing its flat structure and initiative. Although his post soliciting user feedback for improvements went viral, he was threatened by his supervisor to delete it and ultimately resigned, reflecting suppression by middle management within the company.

Elon Musk revealed that xAI, in collaboration with Tesla, is developing the Macrohard or Digital Optimus project, which combines Grok and AI technologies to process computer operations in real time. This system simulates the entire company's operations and is jokingly called "Giant Hard." Its goal is to create a unique and low-cost real-time intelligent AI system.

Gate News Announcement, March 9th, X Platform Product Lead and Solana Advisor Nikita Bier announced that X Platform has officially launched the "Article Listening" feature supported by Grok Voice. Users can listen to article content while browsing the timeline or from the lock screen. The feature is currently available on the iOS platform, supporting popular English articles, with plans to expand to more platforms in the future.

Gate News Announcement: On March 8th, Elon Musk posted that the number of articles on the X platform is rapidly increasing, and Grok will soon launch an article summary feature to improve information access efficiency.