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Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
Made this short clip with @grok's new director bot, inspired by John Baldessari's dot works.
I was really impressed by how the agent handled the consistency of the dots: "To keep the faces hidden, I'm adding the dots myself over every frame after the scenes are generated, rather than counting on the video model to keep them in place."
A new bot called "Director," by Xi Yan, showed up in the Grok Bot Marketplace. It's a video director that takes a brief and plans, shoots, cuts and delivers short films, ads, explainers or music videos. Import it, it comes with a pack of video skills.
x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/vi…
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
Watch Episode 1 of our Odyssey series made with Grok Imagine.
Let us know in the comments if you'd like a full breakdown of how it was done!
Creative collaboration with @WonderStudiosX and director Dev Walker @glumlot_
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
Q3 2026 highlights:
- Delivered revenue of $14.6 billion, up 161% year-over-year
- Successfully launched our first revenue-generating Starship mission, delivering 26 Starlink V3 satellites to our broadband constellation, representing approximately 10x the downlink capacity added by a Falcon 9 Starlink launch
- Added $6.7 billion of incremental Super Intelligence solutions and infrastructure revenue year-over-year, driven by cloud services agreements, the acquisition of Cursor, and our growing SI models and software applications, including @Grok @Bot
- Delivered year-over-year revenue growth of 69% and income from operations growth of 99% for the Connectivity segment, supported by strong momentum in enterprise and government adoption, and continued @Starlink consumer subscriber growth
- Continued to scale nameplate compute, reaching 1.7 GW as of September 30, 2026
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
BREAKING: Tesla's Roadster goes airborne, soaring over a row of Tesla vehicles in a live stunt at its unveiling event.
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
Big day for @Starlink Mobile…
We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US.
With this new spectrum and our Gen2 constellation, Starlink Mobile can ensure Americans have access to high-speed mobile broadband no matter where they are → spacex.com/updates#starlink-…
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
Video 1.5 Lite is live in the Grok Imagine API. The new workhorse for text-to-video and image-to-video.
$0.02/sec at 480p
$0.03/sec at 720p
$0.14/sec at 1080p
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
I don’t care how much energy was needed by SI to create this video.
It was worth it! 😂
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
Very cool to work with @PJaccetturo and his team at Genre AI on this pilot scene of the Odyssey.
If you have any questions about how to use Grok @imagine for cinematic workflows, drop them below.
We're always looking to improve, let us know what tools you're missing or ideas you have 🙏
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 takes #4 on the Artificial Analysis Text to Image Leaderboard, the highest ranked model outside OpenAI, a 14 place climb over the previous generation, and lands on the Pareto frontier for quality vs price
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 is xAI's latest image model released in August. The model supports text to image, image editing, as well as multi-reference generations with up to five input images.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 is a large step up on the previous generation grok-imagine-image-quality: it climbs from #18 to #4 in Text to Image and from #16 to #10 in Image Editing, closing the gap to the leaders on every Text to Image capability and use case we measure, with the largest gains in Knowledge, Text Rendering and Lighting.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 is available through the xAI API as grok-imagine-image-2.0, in Grok Imagine on grok.com and the Grok apps, and through fal and Replicate.
Congratulations to @spacexai and @elonmusk on the release!
See below for our analysis and example outputs of Grok Imagine Image 2.0 in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
building models that understand us requires building models of us - super excited to share some work in that direction and hope people find it useful!
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
This is why companies that don’t pull the plug on you matter: OpenAI will cut Cursor after the acquisition, then keep using X to promote their models.
The asymmetry is the whole story.
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
Providers start an API business before they know which apps will matter. Cursor was one of those apps, used the API well, and the provider made a lot of money off it.
Asking why they “allowed” Cursor from day one gets the sequence backward. First comes the API, then the apps, then the scale.
The scary part isn’t Cursor. It’s the precedent: downstream startups now have to compete with the market and with their own provider (OAI in this case) flipping on them.
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
Grok Bot is now available to everyone with a standard Grok or Cursor subscription. It's grown faster than any product we've seen.
It's been particularly exciting to see the range of jobs people delegate to Grok Bot, from running small e-commerce businesses (including support, advertising, inventory, finance), coordinating customer events (directly pinging and working with dozens of human coworkers), testing production software, and completing large, mundane parts of users' day-to-day work.
Hexiang (Frank) Hu retweeted
I gave Grok @bot a link to the post below and asked it to take up the cinematography challenge.
Direct the film entirely through the chat casually and nothing else. Pretty wild.
Homer had a lyre. You have Grok Imagine.
Create a compelling scene from Homer’s The Odyssey that shows what Grok @Imagine’s video and voice capabilities can do. We’re awarding $100K, $50K, and $25K to the top three videos submitted by quoting this post. 🧵