Grok posts the first seven-minute episode of its AI-made “Odyssey”, three months after Musk promised a “historically accurate” film

The Grok Imagine account on X posted a seven-minute, AI-generated first episode of Homer's “Odyssey” on Friday 23 October, made with Wonder Studios, TechCrunch and The A.V. Club both report. X refused our reader, so the post itself was not opened.

About three months earlier, TechCrunch reports, Elon Musk had promised a “historically accurate” full-length film, after attacking the casting of Christopher Nolan's version; The A.V. Club says the episode came a few months after that promise. The clip is the most visible public test yet of Grok Imagine, the video tool of Musk's Grok.

TechCrunch's Anthony Ha found the footage more polished than earlier AI videos Musk had posted, but wrote: “What the footage really lacks is any sense of artistry, inspiration, or human interest.” The A.V. Club's headline called Grok Musk's “slop generator”.

The reception of a long piece such as this one is a public measure of how far AI video tools still are from what film studios make.

• Reported Grok Imagine posted a seven-minute first episode on 23 October, made with Wonder Studios, TechCrunch reports. TechCrunch
• Reported The episode came a few months after Musk promised a “historically accurate” film, The A.V. Club reports. The A.V. Club