Grok imagine for free.
Back in March, Musk pompously promised to "double down" on the photo and video generator for Grok, and this week he just fired more than half of his developers. About 60 people were laid off in the bowels of SpaceX - only the staff on duty remained in the project so that the "unlock" buttons would only work for now. Users are already noticing a severe API slowdown, for example, a limit of one request per 5 seconds.
Imagine's development leaders, Haotian Liu and Guodong Zhang, left the company earlier.
The freed up computing power and resources will be used to develop a marker and Grokbot, which, by the way, is taking off well.
And I don't have a very good feeling. First, OpenAI has finished Sora, Google has made very little progress with Omni Flash, nothing has been heard about Nano Banana for a very long time, and it looks like the Chinese will finally discourage them from competing in this clearing.
Well, there are leaks that some subscribers are already getting access to Seedance 3.0. So I'm afraid the big guys just don't stand a chance in this market.
Funny picture created by ChatGPT. There, it seems, filters on famous photos have finally been removed. But Gemini avoids mentions of Elon Musk like the devil from incense. And she herself offers: Do you want me to produce a picture to illustrate this news? Then he writes: I'm just learning how to make pictures, so I can't do it.