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Grok Imagine posts its first AI Odyssey episode, three months after Musk promised a full film

Musk promised a full-length, historically accurate film by the end of 2026, and so far there's one episode.

By Think Facility · October 25, 2026 · xAI AI video Save

Grok Imagine posted Episode 1 of an Odyssey series on October 23, 2026, made with its own AI video tool. Elon Musk reposted it a few hours later with four words of his own, "Odyssey with Grok Imagine."

It's the first piece of a promise Musk made on X on July 21: a full-length movie of The Odyssey from Grok Imagine before the year is out. So far that's one episode. There are a little over nine weeks left in 2026.

1. Jul 21, 10:41 pmMusk Musk promises a film
2. Oct 23, 3:23 pmImagine Episode 1 goes up
3. Oct 24, 1:45 amMusk Musk reposts it

Eastern time, read off each post on X.

What's out so far

Here's the July promise in full. He set two tests for it besides length, one about history and one about Homer.

Grok Imagine's own post names the people who made the episode with it: Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. It offers a full breakdown of how it was done if viewers ask in the comments.

The post doesn't say how many episodes there will be, or when the next one is due. Laurence Moroney, who watched it, put the length at roughly seven minutes.

He also made the point that matters most for judging it. Video models generate short clips, he wrote, so a piece this long depends on the director, on shot planning, continuity, pacing and the edit. (His tip for anyone learning the craft: rewatch one scene with the sound off and note every cut.) I'd add that neither Grok Imagine nor Musk has said how much of the final cut came from the model and how much from people choosing and arranging shots.

Who owns a film an AI made

Why does the split matter? Because in the US it can decide whether the film is protected by copyright at all.

The US Copyright Office set that out in Part 2 of its AI report, published on January 29, 2025 (the line above is from its own announcement of the report). A person's creative arrangement of the output, or changes to it, can count. Prompts don't.

So Dev Walker's shot choices and edit are the kind of work a copyright claim on the episode would rest on. Under the Office's view, footage that came straight from a prompt wouldn't be protected on its own. (That's my reading of the guidance applied to this case. Neither post says whether anyone has tried to register the episode.)

Any studio or independent filmmaker using AI video works under the same rule. The Office says using AI to help make a work, or putting AI material inside a larger human work, doesn't bar copyright. It also found the case for new protection of pure AI output hasn't been made.

What comes next

Still, for a viewer it's simpler. Grok Imagine's series is a test of how far one AI video tool can stretch with a human director steering it, and the next episode will show whether seven minutes was a pilot or the pace.

Part 3 of the Office's report, on training AI models with copyrighted works, came out as a pre-publication version on May 9, 2025, with a final version still to come.