Building Grok @xai, CS PhD @JohnsHopkins; Previous @GoogleAI

Joined October 2018
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So proud of the team. LFG!!!
Well I know I should comment on Elo here, but I just want to say we have the best team building the future together!!!! @imhaotian @zeliu_ @jefffhj @du_peichao75719 @jathushan @ZhibeiM @never1andd keyang_xu @Randxie29 shubham_goel @hangg70 @Guodzh
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I love the incredible people of SpaceX beyond words
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Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview by @xAI reclaims 1st in Image to Video with an Elo of 1357 on Design Arena. With this model, @xAI establishes new Pareto frontiers in both Speed and Price, with an average generation time of 41.2 seconds and $0.01/img and $0.08/sec for the 480p quality. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview now leads Image to Video with a 49 point Elo gap, ahead of Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Fast by @BytePlusGlobal. Congratulations to the @xAI team on this release!
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Iliad (Troy) trailer made by Grok Imagine 1.5, which was just released

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Grok Imagine on Vercel
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 on AI Gateway. Image-to-video generation with synced audio in one pass. πšŠπš πšŠπš’πš πšπšŽπš—πšŽπš›πšŠπšπšŽπš…πš’πšπšŽπš˜({ πš–πš˜πšπšŽπš•: 'πš‘πšŠπš’/πšπš›πš˜πš”-πš’πš–πšŠπšπš’πš—πšŽ-πšŸπš’πšπšŽπš˜-𝟷.𝟻-πš™πš›πšŽπšŸπš’πšŽπš ', πš™πš›πš˜πš–πš™πš: '𝚊 πš›πšŠπš‹πš‹πš’πš πšœπš™πš›πš’πš—πšπš’πš—πš πšπš‘πš›πš˜πšžπšπš‘ πš—πš’πšŒ' });
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We’re back to No. 1 on the leaderboard! πŸŽ‰ After months of hard work, what a journey! It’s also the best option for fast and low-cost generation. Meanwhile, we’re cranking day and night on v2 to make it even stronger. Try it and let us know what we can improve β€” your feedback is invaluable. β†’ docs.x.ai/developers/models/…
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Grok-Imagine-Video-1.5-Preview (720p) has landed #1 in the Image-to-Video Arena! This is a massive 52 pt improvement over Grok-Imagine-Video (720p), surpassing the best video models Seedance-2.0 and HappyHorse. Congrats to @xAI and @elonmusk on this big achievement!
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May 31
A lot of improvements have been made. It’s worth a try.
May 31
Grok-Imagine-Video-1.5-Preview (720p) has landed #1 in the Image-to-Video Arena! This is a massive 52 pt improvement over Grok-Imagine-Video (720p), surpassing the best video models Seedance-2.0 and HappyHorse. Congrats to @xAI and @elonmusk on this big achievement!
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My first video using the new Grok Imagine 1.5 preview using the API! Okay, I think it is safe to say @xai has cooked with @grok!
Updated video model! Today on Arena and xAI API! @grok Imagine edges out Seedance 2.0 in blind tests. Now, if Imagine can address rate limits and moderation, that would be great.
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Race never stops. Appetizer first. We are working hard.
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Grok-Imagine-Video-1.5-Preview (720p) has landed #1 in the Image-to-Video Arena! This is a massive 52 pt improvement over Grok-Imagine-Video (720p), surpassing the best video models Seedance-2.0 and HappyHorse. Congrats to @xAI and @elonmusk on this big achievement!
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Finally ship this new model with many improvements! Please try itπŸš€
Grok Imagine now has dramatically improved lip sync and sharper audio quality on all image-to-video generations. Dialogue tracks the mouth. Sound matches the scene. Your videos look and sound the way you imagined them.
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Grok Imagine now has dramatically improved lip sync and sharper audio quality on all image-to-video generations. Dialogue tracks the mouth. Sound matches the scene. Your videos look and sound the way you imagined them.
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Grok Imagine takes the realism to a whole new level It's hard to tell if it's made with AI or real
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BREAKING: Grok Imagine by @xai takes 1st overall on Multi Image to Video Arena, with an overall Elo of 1342. The team's debut reference image to video model establishes a new Pareto frontier for Preference vs. Speed with an average generation time of 58.9 seconds. Huge congrats to the @xai team for this achievement!
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Try our Reference-to-Video model! Grok it!πŸš€
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Truly proud of what a small team was able to achieve at @xai. Ad astra!
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We always target to best models.
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Grok Imagine tops LMArena video editing benchmark! Try it through API here: x.ai/api/imagine Big shoutout to @xAI Imagine team! #GrokImagine Keep cooking! πŸš€
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We are supporting Reference to Video in Grok Imagine now! You can create videos with up to 7 ingredients, try it!
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Grok Imagine just got a major update from @xai! You can now specify up to 7 reference images for generating a video. The images can reference people, objects, or even keyframes. It's really very flexible! @Grok will then combine the references with your prompt into a video. πŸ“Ή
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Imagine-Image is at the Pareto front: Better, Faster & Cost efficientπŸš€ And we will be even better in weeks🫑🫑 (Kudos to the amazing xAI team and all my lords🀣)
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Great work by the @Grok Imagine team!
The new @xAI Grok-Imagine-Image model is a Pareto-optimal model in Image Arena: The Pareto frontier tells us which model has the highest Arena score at each price point. @xAi’s latest models have improved the frontier, giving optimal performance in the mid-price tier. For a wide range of prices between 2c and 8c per image, @elonmusk’s @xAI has the leading model, delivering the maximum performance. Top models on the Pareto frontier for Image Arena (Single Image Edit): - @OpenAI: GPT-Image-1.5-high-fidelity - @xAI: Grok Imagine Image Pro - @xAI: Grok Imagine Image - @bfl_ml: Flux 2 Klein 9B - @bfl_ml: Flux-2-Dev - @reve : V1.1 Fast See thread for how the frontier changes for Text-to-Image 🧡
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Grok Imagine image-gen and image-edit is faster and better than Nano Banana!
The new @xAI Grok-Imagine-Image model is a Pareto-optimal model in Image Arena: The Pareto frontier tells us which model has the highest Arena score at each price point. @xAi’s latest models have improved the frontier, giving optimal performance in the mid-price tier. For a wide range of prices between 2c and 8c per image, @elonmusk’s @xAI has the leading model, delivering the maximum performance. Top models on the Pareto frontier for Image Arena (Single Image Edit): - @OpenAI: GPT-Image-1.5-high-fidelity - @xAI: Grok Imagine Image Pro - @xAI: Grok Imagine Image - @bfl_ml: Flux 2 Klein 9B - @bfl_ml: Flux-2-Dev - @reve : V1.1 Fast See thread for how the frontier changes for Text-to-Image 🧡
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