Grok Imagine

• 🎬 Animates a single image into short cinematic video clips
• 🆕 xAI's launch image-to-video model in the Grok Imagine family
• 📏 Generates clips up to 10 seconds at 720p
• 🔊 Native synchronized audio including sound effects and dialogue
• 🎯 Positioned for a distinctive, imaginative creative style
• 🌐 Available via xAI's Imagine API for production workflows

xAI

xAI is an American artificial intelligence company and wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX. The company develops AI systems under the Grok brand, spanning language models, image generation, and video synthesis. xAI has quickly established itself as a multimodal…

Grok Imagine (image-to-video) is xAI's model for turning a static image into a short, moving clip with synchronized audio. Released in late January 2026, it launched as part of the unified Grok Imagine creative brand alongside sibling capabilities for text-to-video conversion and inpainting editing. xAI describes Imagine as its video-audio generative system focused on instruction following, scene restyling, object addition or removal, and motion control.

The xAI docs indicate clips up to 10 seconds at 720p with selectable aspect ratios. The model takes a static image as the driving input and adds motion with automatically generated audio, suited to portrait animation, product showcases, and concept art.

This variant focuses on a single image as the driving input, distinguishing it from the family's reference-to-video model, which steers output using reference assets rather than a fixed first frame. Within the catalog, the model is positioned for a distinctive creative style with imaginative, expressive scenes.

The Grok Imagine family later expanded with higher-quality image models like Grok Imagine High Quality and private video variants including Grok Imagine Private and Grok Imagine 1.5 Private, building on this original release.