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Grok Imagine (image & video generation)

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xAI's image-and-video generation product, built into the Grok apps and API. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 launched May-June 2026 and topped the Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard on release; Musk declared the product 'done' on July 5, 2026, and a July 31 update added native 1080p output, voice/face-consistent references and up to seven-image multi-reference scene control. On August 7, 2026 xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0, rebuilding the image side around editing tools - a region-specific magic wand, precise segmentation, background removal, and multi-reference editing accepting up to five input images per generation.

Latest update Aug 8, 2026

Grok Imagine (image & video generation)

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Current status

Moved from preview to full general availability June 16, 2026; the July 31, 2026 update added 1080p text-to-video, image-to-video and reference-to-video generation with up to seven simultaneous visual anchors per clip; Image 2.0 shipped August 7, 2026 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and in xAI's iOS and Android apps, with API access still pending.

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Specifications2

Leaderboard Position

#1 on the Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard at launch, priced ~86% below OpenAI's Sora; Image 2.0 ranks #2 on the Arena text-to-image and image-edit leaderboards behind OpenAI's gpt-image-2

Video Output

Native 1080p, 6-15s clips with audio, up to 7 reference images per generation

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In the news2

  1. Appeals court pauses Minnesota AI nudification law in xAI case

    On Oct. 2, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted xAI an injunction putting Minnesota's HF 1606 anti-nudification law on hold while the company appeals a Sept. 4 district-court denial. Reuters, via MPR News, and Law360 reported the Friday order is temporary and does not decide the merits. The Aug. 1 law bars covered operators from allowing users to create realistic intimate images of an identifiable person that were not in the original photo. xAI says Grok Imagine has protections against creating nudified images of real people; Minnesota had urged the court to leave the law in force.

    www.mprnews.org www.law360.com

  2. xAI ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 with precision editing tools

    xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, making it generally available as Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and in its iOS and Android apps. The release centers editing as a core feature, with a magic wand tool for region-specific changes, precise segmentation, background removal, and multi-reference editing that accepts up to five input images in one generation. xAI said the model ranks second in the world on the Arena leaderboards for both text-to-image generation and image editing, behind OpenAI's gpt-image-2.

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