Musk Promised Grok Imagine a Feature-Length Odyssey; the First Episode Runs Seven Minutes
Musk's own wording of the promise was a full-length movie of The Odyssey, “historically accurate and true to the art of Homer”, finished before the year is out.
On Friday the company shared the first seven-minute, AI-generated episode of an Odyssey series on X. The account credited the “creative collaboration” to Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker, both of which specialise in AI filmmaking.
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Scott Derrickson addressed Musk directly on Musk's own platform to call out the absurdity of the project, telling him he doesn't know cinema and stopped reading in his twenties.
The pledge was specifically a full-length movie before the year ends, and what exists is a first seven-minute episode. Partial follow-through ahead of a deadline is not the same as a miss.
Then look at who gets credit: Wonder Studios and a named director, both specialising in AI filmmaking. Whether that is a machine making a movie or a small studio using one is the question worth asking.