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Elon Musk Reacts As Grok Imagine Brings His Son's Drawing To Life
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Elon Musk's son, Strider, drawing featured a yellow spaceship heading to a pink Mars.
Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive and mother to four of Elon Musk's children, used xAI's Grok Imagine tool to turn a drawing by her 3-year-old son, Strider, into a short animated video.
Strider had created the drawing for his father. It showed a yellow spaceship, titled 'Starship", flying towards a pink Mars. He wrote: 'To Daddy" across the page and added his name and age at the bottom.
Imagine bringing images to life ✨ — Shivon Zilis (@shivon) August 5, 2025
Art Brought To Life
Zilis used Grok Imagine, an AI tool by xAI, to animate the drawing. With a simple prompt, the sketch came alive as a short video. She captioned it, 'Imagine bringing images to life."
Musk responded to the post with a smiling emoji. He later reshared the video, writing, 'Grok Imagine can turn your child's drawing into an animated movie."
Grok Imagine can turn your child's drawing into an animated movie 🥰 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 5, 2025
Families Use Grok Imagine
After the post, many parents began sharing animated versions of their children's artwork, excited by the idea of turning simple drawings into moving stories.
Another said, 'Very interesting story! My three-year-old drew mermaids and kittens. Children have a new way to make their pictures come to life now."
'I used Grok Image to make some movies from my son's drawings in summer camp. Pretty amazing!" someone added.
'That's awesome. Trying that tonight," a person remarked.
What Is Grok Imagine?
Grok Imagine is a new feature in the Grok app by xAI. It uses AI to turn text into pictures and can also turn images into short videos with sound.
How To Create Images With Grok Imagine
You can start by typing a short prompt describing what you want to see. If you prefer, you can upload an existing photo or tap the 'Speak" button to say your idea out loud.
Once you do that, Grok Imagine will show you the image along with a few different versions to choose from.
If you keep scrolling down, more images based on your prompt will continue to appear automatically. You can either share the images directly or save them to your phone.
How To Create Videos From Grok Imagine
After you have selected an image, tap on it and choose the 'Make video" option.
You will be given different video styles to pick from, such as Custom, Spicy, Fun or Normal.
Grok Imagine will then automatically create a video.
How To Turn Your Own Image Into A Video
To use one of your personal photos, go to the bottom of the app and tap the photo icon with a plus sign.
Upload any image from your phone's gallery.
Once uploaded, Grok Imagine will turn that image into a short video clip automatically.
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