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grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview, our latest image-to-video model, is now available via the xAI API in preview.

Our latest image-to-video model, grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview, is now available via the xAI API in preview.

grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview turns a single still image into fluid, cinematic video. Give it a starting frame and a prompt describing the motion, and it animates the scene, including camera moves, atmosphere, and physics, while staying faithful to your source image. You can generate clips at up to 720p.

Direct the shot with natural-language prompts. Describe the camera move, the pacing, and the sound design, then set your resolution and clip length. The model holds detail and lighting from the input frame, so the result continues the original image rather than reinterpreting it.

The model also works well for sequences. Stage each frame, animate it, and chain the shots together into longer scenes that keep a consistent look across an entire project.

Animate an image in a few lines of code.

import os
import xai_sdk
client = xai_sdk.Client(api_key = os.getenv("XAI_API_KEY"))
response = client.video.generate(
    prompt = "Slow cinematic push-in as embers drift across the battlefield and the helmet's crest stirs in the wind",
    model = "grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview",
    image_url = "https://your-host.com/helmet.jpg",
    duration = 10,
    resolution = "720p",
)
print(response.url)

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Grok Build 0.1, our fastest coding model, is now available via the xAI API in public beta.

Our latest coding model, grok-build-0.1, is now available via the xAI API in public beta.

grok-build-0.1 is a coding model specifically trained for agentic coding tasks, including web development, debugging, and MCP support. It's the same model that powers the Grok Build CLI.

The model is served at a blazing-fast 100+ tokens/second and is priced at $1/m tokens in and $2/m tokens out. Outside of coding, it’s also a speedy, economical option for general-purpose agentic and tool calling use cases.

Try it now

Create API key

curl https://api.x.ai/v1/responses \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $XAI_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "grok-build-0.1",
"input": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Generate a clean, tasteful, and minimalist personal website design with elegant typography"
}
]
}'

grok-build-0.1 performs best in agentic harness like Grok Build, Cursor, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Kilo Code, or OpenCode. It’s also available via OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway.

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Use your SuperGrok or X Premium subscription inside OpenCode.

After connecting your Grok account, start coding with Grok Build, the same model that powers xAI's terminal-based coding agent.

Setup

Install OpenCode:

curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash

Launch OpenCode:

opencode

Inside OpenCode, run /connect and pick xAI:

/connect

Pick the sign-in method that fits your setup — both use your Grok subscription:

• xAI Grok OAuth (SuperGrok Subscription) — opens your browser to sign in.
• xAI Grok OAuth (Headless / Remote / VPS) — prints a code and URL for SSH or remote hosts.

More open-source agents and integrations are coming soon.

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Persistent expertise for Grok. Generate documents, decks, and spreadsheets. Automate workflows. Build and share your own skills.

Today, we're launching Skills. Teach Grok something once and it remembers across every conversation. No more repeating your preferences, formatting rules, or workflow steps.

Ready Out of the Box

Every Grok account ships with built-in skills from xAI, with no setup required. If you want to customize one, just override it with your own version. Yours always takes priority.

Word Documents

Create and edit .docx with full formatting

Presentations

Build slide decks from scratch

Spreadsheets

Generate formatted spreadsheets and analyze data

PDFs

Create, merge, split, and extract from PDFs

Skill Creator

Build new custom skills through conversation

Instant Office Documents

Need a formatted invoice, a pitch deck, or a budget spreadsheet? Grok generates production-ready Word docs, PowerPoint slides, Excel files, and PDFs, all styled and ready to share. You can also upload existing files and Grok will restructure, polish, or expand them.

Presentations

Build complete slide decks for pitches, quarterly reviews, and workshops with strong visual hierarchy and speaker notes.
“Design a Leadership Strategic Thinking Workshop deck with exercises, frameworks, and takeaways.”

Word Documents

Generate polished invoices, contracts, proposals, and resumes with full formatting — headings, tables, bullet points, and consistent styling.
“Create a professional enterprise invoice for APEX-2026-0547 with line items, tax, and payment terms.”

Spreadsheets

Generate formatted spreadsheets with formulas, color-coded sections, and clear structure — budgets, dashboards, and forecasts.
“Create a monthly budget tracker with income, expenses, and savings projections.”

PDF Reports

Create polished PDF reports, proposals, and research papers — formatted, styled, and ready to share.
“Generate a PDF report on AI interpretability formatted for conference submission.”

Build Your Own

Creating a skill takes seconds. Describe it in conversation, upload a file, or write one from scratch. Invested time perfecting a format or workflow? Just ask Grok to save everything it learned as a skill so you never have to explain it again.

Get Started

Skills are live now on Grok 4.3 across grok.com, iOS, and Android.

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Introducing Grok Build

Early Beta

Now in early beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers — Grok Build is a new coding agent that runs right from your terminal.

Today we're launching an early beta of Grok Build, a powerful new coding agent and CLI for professional software engineering and complex coding work.

Available first for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. Through this early beta, we will improve the model and product based on your feedback. Install Grok Build with a single command and sign in with your SuperGrok Heavy account:

curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash

Plan, review, approve

For complex tasks, start Grok Build in plan mode. You can approve the plan, comment on individual steps, or rewrite it entirely before execution begins. Once a plan is approved, every change shows up as a clean diff.

Works with what you already use

Your AGENTS.md, plugins, hooks, skills, and MCP servers all work out of the box. Start Grok Build in your repo and it picks up your conventions instantly.

Subagents that work in parallel

For larger tasks, Grok Build delegates work to specialized subagents that run in parallel. Grok Build also supports deep worktree integrations, and you can launch subagents in their own worktrees.

Built to fit your workflow

Headless mode (-p) allows easily running agents inside scripts and automations. The CLI also provides full ACP support to build your own bots and agent orchestration apps.

Try it today

This is an early beta, and your feedback is the fastest way to make it better. Type /feedback in the CLI to send bugs, requests, and reactions straight to the team.

SuperGrok Heavy subscribers can install Grok Build with the command above and start building. If you're not on SuperGrok Heavy yet, upgrade here — we're excited to see what you create.

curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash

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Deep integrations that bring the apps you use every day directly into Grok.

Today, we're excited to launch Connectors — deep integrations that bring the apps you use every day directly into Grok. Connectors let Grok work with your tools end-to-end, turning fragmented workflows into seamless experiences. Read and summarize emails, update slides, organize your calendar, edit spreadsheets, and much more — all without constant copy-pasting.

Available on Grok Web today

Connectors are now live on Grok Web. Just sign in, click the + button, select Connectors, and click + Add connector to get started.

The following Connectors are now available:

• SharePoint: Grok can search, read, and synthesize the latest files, lists, and pages across your organization. With write permissions enabled, Grok can also create, edit, and update documents, lists, and pages. Advanced document editing capabilities are powered by Grok 4.3.
• Outlook: Search your inbox, calendar, and meetings with full context. Grok can draft and send emails, create calendar invites, or help you triage and prioritize your inbox.
• OneDrive: Instant access to all your personal and shared files. Ask Grok to analyze spreadsheets, presentations, reports, and more without ever leaving the chat.
• Google Workspace: Connect Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar with one integration. Grok can read and write emails, documents, spreadsheets, and events.
• Notion: Work directly in your Notion workspace. Search or edit pages, databases, and wikis across you and your team’s docs.
• GitHub: Connect your repositories, issues, and pull requests. Grok can search code, summarize PRs, review changes, and help you stay on top of your development workflow.
• Linear: Connect your Linear workspace to bring tasks, issues, roadmaps, and projects directly into Grok. Grok can search through your backlog, summarize sprint progress, draft updates, and create new issues.

In addition to all the connectors above, we’re also launching Bring Your Own MCP: Connect any custom Model Context Protocol server to Grok. No matter what your team uses - a homegrown knowledge base, proprietary APIs, or an internal MCP gateway - Grok can plug straight into your own tools and workflows.

To read documentation about connectors visit https://docs.x.ai/grok/connectors

What's coming next

We’ll be adding new Connectors regularly to support even more apps and workflows you use every day.

We’re also bringing full Connectors support to the Grok iOS and Android apps very soon, so you can access your connected tools wherever you are.

We can’t wait to see what you build with the connectors.

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Higher realism. Stronger text rendering. Better creative control.

Quality Mode for image generation and editing is now live for enterprise developers and teams via the Grok Imagine API.

What Quality Mode Delivers

Photo of a woman with friends at the pool, wide shot, the woman is wearing a swimsuit that's all yellow toned and a matching cover up, looking relaxed, natural skin and pores, skin imperfections, Italian leisure aesthetic, warm afternoon sunlight, high-contrast dappled canopy shadows, deep forest green, terracotta orange, crisp canvas white, herringbone brick textures, medium format editorial photography, analogue film warmth, architectural framing, tranquil luxury vibe, deep depth of field.

Prompt: High end simple menu of french chocolate deserts

Prompt: Photo of [Influencer brewing morning coffee on tailgate with beautiful sunrise light], soft golden hour natural lighting with warm backlighting and subtle lens flares, warm earthy color palette with golden amber highlights and cool blue sky accents, serene contemplative atmosphere, realistic photographic rendering with natural material textures, balanced natural composition with leading lines, soft shadows and gentle highlights, crisp photorealistic details

Big leap in realism

Fine details, accurate textures, realistic characters and scenes.

Stronger text rendering

Clean, multilingual text capabilities.

Superior creative control

Tighter prompt following, deeper scene and world understanding, consistent brand results.

Leaderboard Rankings

xAI's Grok Imagine API ranks among the strongest models on independent leaderboards.

Text-to-Image Arena — Ranked by Lab (Top 5)

OpenAI
Google
xAI
Luma AI
Microsoft AI
xAI (Previous Model)
1398
1268
1223
1193
1181
1177

Source: LMArena Text-to-Image Arena as of
May 4, 2026.

Enterprise Use Cases

Quality Mode shines in business applications.

Product Visualization & Marketing Assets

Create photorealistic product renders that match your brand. Generate hero images, social assets, icons, and ad variations at scale.

PROMPT

Create an event ad for the Cybertruck in the first image. Maintain the same brand style as image 2 but make it Mars themed. Change the tagline to something different but maintain the tagline placement. Add the date and location of the event under the tagline: Mars, May 5th, 2035.

OUTPUT

Make Ideas Come to Life Faster

Visualize what you're thinking and share it with the team.

PROMPT

A small perfume bottle with a minimalist label that says "La Belle Vie", glass luxury perfume bottle with glass cap, standing on a stone villa window overlooking the ocean in warm sunlight, with Mediterranean retro-leisure aesthetic, green and brown hues against an expansive sea and wild flowers backdrop with hues of dark green, muted reds, vibrant greens, blues, pale yellows and natural retro film colors, light reflections cast from the bottle onto the stone, magazine style photo, quiet luxury aesthetic

PROMPT

Put this perfume bottle on a print pamphlet that a woman is holding in her hand, POV

OUTPUT

UGC Style Content

PROMPT

Full body composition, photorealistic portrait of a 25-year-old woman with long hair, natural realistic skin with visible pores and skin texture, streetwear vibe, wearing this exact black t-shirt with the precise white graphic logo from the reference image, fitted not oversized, black pants and all-black shoes, standing in confident pose with hand on hip, plain white seamless background, natural studio lighting, ultra realistic, high resolution, detailed

OUTPUT

PROMPT

Exact same woman, exact face, exact body, exact outfit from the reference image. UGC style, eating a piece of leftover birthday cake, picture from top down POV someone taking it, imperfect picture

OUTPUT

PROMPT

Exact same woman, exact outfit from the reference image. Mirror selfie in a reflective stainless steel elevator, holding a silver iPhone in one hand taking the photo. Soft natural lighting, casual streetwear aesthetic, realistic UGC photography style, relaxed lean against elevator wall with subtle smile

OUTPUT

Improved World Understanding

PROMPT:

Picture of a white frosted cake with a message on it in red frosting explaining in a nutshell who Alexander the Great is.

Broad Visual Range

From cinematic scenes to UI-style icons, Quality Mode can create any style.

PROMPT:

Cinematic shot of a couple on a picnic blanket in soft muted red and beige tones on hill, a picnic basket, wine, two glasses and book, soft diffused natural daylight, muted desaturated sage green and warm earth tone palette, gentle film grain, atmospheric haze, serene pastoral atmosphere, natural skin textures, intimate close-up or wide scenic composition, warm skin tones against cool backgrounds, contemplative mood

Quality Mode enhances Video Generation

Pairing our latest image model with our video capabilities creates endless possibilities for brands: social media video assets, product showcasing, ads and more.

How to Get Started

import xai_sdk
client = xai_sdk.Client()
response = client.image.sample(
    prompt = "A collage of London landmarks in a stenciled street-art style",
    model = "grok-imagine-image-quality",
)
print(response.url)

For full documentation, visit our docs page.

Welcome to the next level of Grok Imagine. Try Grok Imagine Quality Mode on API.

TRY QUALITY MODE

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