Grok Imagine Private

• 🎬 xAI image-to-video model that animates a still into short clips
• 🔊 Generates synchronized native audio, sound effects, and dialogue
• 🧠 Part of xAI's Imagine API for video, image, and audio
• 📏 Produces short video clips with synchronized native audio
• 🎯 Targets imaginative, expressive scenes per Venice catalog description
• 🔧 Available through xAI's Imagine API endpoints
• 🆕 Predecessor to the later Grok Imagine 1.5 Private variant
• 🏢 Part of xAI's expanding Grok Imagine creative media family

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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 Private is the private-access image-to-video member of xAI's Grok Imagine family, taking a static image and adding motion, object interactions, and automatically generated sound. The broader Grok Imagine brand launched in late January 2026 with text-to-video, image-to-video, and inpainting capabilities, establishing xAI's unified creative media suite. According to xAI, the video models include native audio generation, with sound effects and dialogue.

Through xAI's Imagine API, the model generates short clips with synchronized native audio from a single input image. xAI documents the Imagine family as a unified system for generating video, images, and audio.

This image-to-video version sits alongside companion private models including Grok Imagine Private (text-to-video), Grok Imagine R2V Private, and Grok Imagine Private (video-to-video), each targeting a different input pathway. It also relates to the publicly documented Grok Imagine image-to-video model.

Within its own lineage, this April 2026 release was later succeeded by Grok Imagine 1.5 Private, the newer same-family image-to-video iteration from May 2026. Public, primary detail comparing the two versions' specific improvements was limited at the time of writing, so capability differences beyond the version increment are best confirmed in xAI's official Imagine documentation.