xAI launches ‘Grok Imagine’ video generator

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. xAI is officially rolling out Grok Imagine, its recent tool for ultra-fast AI video generation with native sound.

By claiming to supply videos in only half to 1 / 4 of the time it takes to generate AI images, the corporate is pushing the speed limits of creative AI. But the large query stays: can it match the cinematic quality of Google’s leading Veo 3 model?

In today’s AI rundown:

• xAI rolls out Grok Imagine AI video generator

• Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

• Methods to extend AI videos beyond 8 seconds

• Study: Anthropic looks into AI’s personality shift

• 4 recent AI tools & 4 job opportunities

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OPENAI

🎥 xAI rolls out Grok Imagine AI video generator

The Rundown: xAI is officially rolling out Grok Imagine — its recent AI image and video generator — to all SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers on its iOS app, entering an area dominated by Google, OpenAI, Runway, and China’s viral generators.

The small print:

• With Grok Imagine, users can turn any easy text prompt or image right into a 15-second video, complete with native audio, in seconds.

• The model even creates images from text, which may eventually be animated into stylized videos, and continues to auto-generate as users scroll down.

• By way of quality, the videos generated by Imagine look more “AI-generated” as in comparison with other video models, delivering cinematic outputs.

• Elon Musk said the model “should recuperate day-after-day” while emphasizing that it makes videos in 1/2 to 1/4 the time rivals take to make a single image.

Why it matters: While Grok Imagine doesn’t appear to outperform other top video generators in the marketplace, xAI is aiming to supply a fresh tackle video generation with it’s playful and unfiltered style. But as we’ve seen with the chatbot, that approach can sometimes result in unexpected (and even controversial) results.

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GOOGLE

🧠 Google’s ‘multi-agent’ Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

The Rundown: Google released Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its first publicly available multi-agent model that does “parallel pondering” to assist researchers, scientists, and academics tackle complex problems.

The small print:

• First announced at I/O 2025, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think is a variant of the model that won the gold-medal standard at this yr’s International Math Olympiad.

• When handling hard questions, the model spawns multiple agents to explore possible solutions in parallel after which decides the perfect answer from them.

• It scored 34.8% on Humanity’s Last Exam, surpassing Grok 4 and OpenAI’s o3, while delivering SOTA performance on coding and web development tasks.

• Gemini 2.5 Deep Think is rolling out to Gemini app users on Google’s $250/month Ultra plan, with the IMO variant accessible to pick out researchers.

Why it matters: While Meta is vying for “personal” superintelligence, Google is taking a unique route — empowering researchers, scientists, and academics with a parallel-thinking AI that, as an alternative of offering direct answers, spawns a team of expert minds to tackle problems from multiple angles before converging on an answer.

AI TRAINING

🎬 Methods to extend AI videos beyond 8 seconds

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn the way to bypass Google Veo 3’s 8-second clip limit using Google Flow’s frame-to-video feature that allows you to create longer videos with character consistency.

Step-by-step:

1. Create your initial 8-second video using “Text to Video” in Flow (select Veo 3 for audio)

2. Open the scene editor and save the ultimate frame using “Save frame as asset”

3. Start a brand new “Frames to Video” generation using your saved frame, and describe the following sequence

4. Mix each clips within the timeline editor and trim for smooth transitions

Pro tip: Repeat this process multiple times to create even longer videos while maintaining perfect character consistency throughout.

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AI RESEARCH

😈 Study: Anthropic looks into AI’s personality shift

The Rundown: Researchers at Anthropic just identified “Persona Vectors,” neural network activations that help understand and control unexpected (sometimes even unsettling) behavioral changes demonstrated by AI models.

The small print:

• While trained to be helpful and honest, AI models can sometimes drift away, exhibiting unexpected personality traits like sycophancy or racism.

• When these behavioral changes occur, certain patterns of activity or persona vectors are seen inside an AI’s neural network, just like the human brain.

• Researchers extracted these vectors by comparing activation patterns between opposing behaviors (evil vs non-evil).

• They focused on three traits—evil, sycophancy, and hallucination—using persona vectors to scale back their emergence and narrow down causative data.

Why it matters: With popular AI tools like ChatGPT and Grok previously showing behaviors reminiscent of sycophancy and antisemitism, it’s clear that no model is resistant to behavioral drift. Anthropic’s research offers a promising path to understanding these shifts on the neural network level—and using that understanding to construct safeguards.

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📰 Every part else in AI today

European AI startup Mistral is reportedly seeking to raise $1B at a $10B valuation from multiple VCs and Abu Dhabi’s MGX because the AI race heats up.

OpenAI removed an opt-in feature in ChatGPT that allowed users to make their conversations discoverable by search engines like google and yahoo, reminiscent of Google.

Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s access to its API over violation of terms of service and for the heavy usage of Claude Code amongst OAI tech staff ahead of GPT-5’s release.

Apple has reportedly formed an “Answers, Knowledge, and Information” team to create a ChatGPT-like app that may reply to queries using information from the net.

Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, also told analysts that the iPhone maker is “open to M&A” that accelerates its AI roadmap and helps catch as much as rivals.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy indicated that the corporate’s recent AI-powered assistant, Alexa+, may eventually deliver ads to users during conversations.

Meta is aiming to offload $2B value of information center assets to outside partners as it really works to establish massive data centers to power its superintelligence mission.

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