Why Video Agent models are next — Ethan He, xAI Grok Imagine
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
- Published
- June 1, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 43m
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- Last updated
- Jun 10, 2026
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We’re announcing AIEWF speakers this week! Take the AI Engineering Survey!Today’s guest Ethan first joined us for the LS Paper Club as the lead on NVIDIA Cosmos World Model, but then joined xAI and built Grok Imagine in 3 months:He comes back on Latent Space with some nuclear hot takes: that Video Models primarily get their intelligence from LLMs, not fro…
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We’re announcing AIEWF speakers this week! Take the AI Engineering Survey!Today’s guest Ethan first joined us for the LS Paper Club as the lead on NVIDIA Cosmos World Model, but then joined xAI and built Grok Imagine in 3 months:He comes back on Latent Space with some nuclear hot takes: that Video Models primarily get their intelligence from LLMs, not from training on video data, and that the next frontier for truly interactive, realtime, long-horizon world models is to work on LLMs (perhaps Int
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