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John Mullan

JM

Member of Technical Staff at SpaceXAI

Mullan co-founded Hotshot, whose small team trained three generative-video foundation models before xAI acquired the company in 2025. The team joined xAI to continue scaling video generation on its Colossus computing cluster.

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Current role
Member of Technical Staff
Previously
Co-founder,
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026