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xAI's Odyssey AI Video Contest: Launch to Winners

xAI launched a $100,000 Grok Imagine contest themed on Homer's Odyssey in early September. Winners were announced just days later, with @NemPerez taking the top prize for a 5-minute short film.

2026-09-03 ~ 2026-09-05 · 2 episodes · 8 posts

Episode 1 · xAI Hosts Odyssey-Themed Grok Imagine Contest With $100K Top Prize (2026-09-03, 6 posts)

xAI's official account has launched a Grok Imagine creation contest themed on Homer's epic "The Odyssey." Participants must quote the official post and submit epic-scene videos made with Grok Imagine's video and voice capabilities, with the top three entries winning $100K, $50K, and $25K respectively. The event showcases Grok Imagine's video and voice generation capabilities and has drawn enthusiastic community participation.

Confirmed

  • The contest was launched by xAI officially, limited to scenes from "The Odyssey," with submissions made by quoting the original post.
  • Prize structure: 1st place $100K, 2nd place $50K, 3rd place $25K.
  • Multiple entries have already gone public, including a 5-minute short film on the journey into the underworld, "Odyssey Entered the Underworld," and "Ogygia — Isle of Calypso."
  • Entrant mackaybell shared behind-the-scenes details: he collaborated with hypergeekstudio on a piece themed around the "Athena, the bow, the hall" scenes made with Grok Imagine, which did not win, and he said he never expected to.

Why it matters

This is a direct marketing move by xAI to promote Grok Imagine's video and voice generation capabilities. The sizable prize pool has attracted a large number of creators, and the entries themselves serve as public samples for outsiders to assess the product's actual generation quality.

Episode 2 · xAI unveils Imagine Odyssey contest winners, $100K grand prize awarded (2026-09-05, 2 posts)

xAI's Grok Imagine announced the winners of its Imagine Odyssey contest, with @NemPerez taking the $100,000 grand prize for a 5-minute Odyssey-inspired short film, alongside winners @MrAllenT and @JSFILMZ0412.