Grok Imagine team layoff sparks debate: will code beat diffusion for video?
IndraVahan · x · 2026-11-15
A claim that xAI laid off the Grok Imagine team because "coding models will soon overtake video models" — citing Fable 5.2 generating videos via code that sometimes beat native video models.
IndraVahan pushes back: diffusion is still king of photorealism and coding models haven't proven themselves there; the layoff more likely reflects Grok Imagine being far behind Seedance and Wan despite god-tier distribution. The underlying question: will every future task be solved by code?
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