Snark Bytes: Hotshot Joins xAI, Breaks the Simulation by Announcing It on X

Another day, another AI acquisition. This time, Hotshot has been swallowed whole by xAI, Elon Musk’s not-so-subtle attempt at making sure no industry escapes his gravitational pull. The small but mighty team behind Hotshot managed to crank out three video foundation models: Hotshot-XL, Hotshot Act One, and plain ol’ Hotshot. Then, they realized that going it alone in AI is like trying to bootstrap a spaceship: possible, but exhausting.

Now, with access to xAI’s Colossus, the largest computing cluster in the world (because of course it is), the Hotshot team is ready to scale their efforts in education, entertainment, and probably whatever else Musk decides needs "fixing" this week. Investors and teammates are patting themselves on the back, and co-founder John Mullan is getting a heartfelt LinkedIn-ready shoutout. What’s next? A Tesla dashboard that generates AI-powered movie trailers in real-time? A Neuralink integration that lets you experience videos before they’re even made? With xAI at the wheel, anything’s possible—except, perhaps, subtlety.

Speaking of subtlety, Hotshot Support announcing they were acquired by xAI on X? That’s some next-level brand synergy—like if Meta bought Reality Labs and announced it in the metaverse (oh wait…). At this rate, we’re just a few acquisitions away from an AI model named XtraHotshotXtreme generating the news about itself on X about X. So meta, it hurts.