Ex-Nvidia Engineer Departs Elon Musk's xAI After Building Grok Imagine

• Zeeshan Patel, a former Nvidia engineer, has left Elon Musk's xAI after nine months.
• Patel was the first hire for xAI's video generation team and played a key role in developing Grok Imagine.
• He described his time as intense, with a mandate to build a competitive video generation model from scratch in three months.
• The team successfully launched Grok Imagine v0.9, which evolved into Grok Imagine 1.0, now generating millions of videos daily.
• Patel expressed pride in the team's achievements and mentioned Elon Musk's personal involvement in reviewing their work.