Grok can now bring photos to life in seconds: Elon Musk

Elon Musk has sparked an online frenzy after showcasing Grok’s latest AI trick: a tool that can instantly bring still photos to life by turning them into short videos within seconds.

Sharing the update on X, Musk wrote, “Long press on any image to turn it into a video! Then customise the prompt to create whatever you can Imagine.”

He followed it up with a playful example: “My prompt here was ‘add a boyfriend and they transition into muppets,’” he said.



The demo quickly went viral, with users on X rushing to try it out and share their creations. Some generated clips of random people or things doing unexpected and quirky things, while others turned Musk himself into the star: reimagining him in various outfits and humorous meme-style videos.

The tool is part of Grok’s growing creative suite, which already includes writing assistance, image generation, and access to real-time data from the platform.

Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) venture, xAI, rolled out Grok 4 in July, later making it free for all users in August. The free version, however, comes with limits on daily prompts and queries, while premium subscribers enjoy faster responses, extended context, and access to “SuperGrok” modes.

Recently, Musk claimed that the odds of the company’s next chatbot — Grok 5 — achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) are “now at 10% and rising.”

In August, he also took a swipe at his arch-nemesis Sam Altman’s OpenAI after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced GPT-5 integration across Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI Foundry. Musk responded sharply, saying, “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive.”

Nadella was, however, sporty about it and replied that people had been trying that for 50 years, and "that's the fun of it."