This pod was an incredible gift to the community: not only our first pod about @xAI, but Ethan really indulged on all our questions on how to train a SOTA Videogen world model, including specific areas (consistent extending/editing, voice) that Grok @Imagine is *still* SOTA, on top of the factual overviews he ALSO came loaded with opinions/predictions: - why he's quitting Videogen for LLMs: video models get most of their intelligence from LLMs, not from scaling video data - why the next frontier for videogen also happens to be video agent models - agentic models trained to orchestrate video models - why deterministic compression (like MP4) is a useless target vs VAE compression - Videomaxxing: if you truly believe in the "Moore's law" of AI/genmedia, then video models become the final boss UI of everything, like Flipbook (below) Video