🤯 Grok 4 just dropped. History will remember this update as a significant step towards superintelligence. I assembled the top AI artists on X to create a promo video. Here’s exactly how we made this video, step-by-step 👇🏼🧵

I made this because I'm a huge sci-fi nerd. (This post is not political) I love the mission of SpaceX, Tesla, Grok, and Neuralink because they’re paving the way to a future where cancer is gone and humans live for centuries as an interplanetary species.

I made this because I'm a huge sci-fi nerd. (This post is not political) I love the mission of SpaceX, Tesla, Grok, and Neuralink because they’re paving the way to a future where cancer is gone and humans live for centuries as an interplanetary species.

People call me crazy, but I do my edits before generating images to feel if the commercial works. I found an amazing track, “GEN3S1S” by Pendulum Theory on Musicbed, recorded the VO myself, then used ElevenLab’s Voice Changer to keep my performance but swap to 'Donovan’s tone.

I love to collaborate with other AI artists and I was able to work with the top AI Sci-fi artists on X to create the images: @bygen_ai , @wilfredlee and @jamesyeung18

is the perfect platform for multiple artists to all drop in images and collaborate. I created separate tabs for each artist and divided up the work among us all to take point on different shots in the shot list. Then, I chose my favorites as the final shots.

What were my prompts? Sorry, this part’s a bit too secret for X. But if you join my newsletter, I’ll share the exact @midjourney prompts I used for this film plus detailed BTS breakdowns. It’s free and takes 5 seconds to sign up.👇🏼

's team generously donated 25k credits ($400 USD) for this video. I picked 160 images to animate, but only 30 made it into the final commercial. Kling 2.1 is incredible for animating sci-fi images!

I can’t overstate how incredible the Kling 2.1 model is. Prompt: Camera push in, camera tilt up, on a person with wind blowing books all around them, wind blowing hair, the books swirl around them, moats and lights swirl around them coalescing into a portal, vortex

Upscaled in @topazlabs . Sound Design by @matheusbertin_ (hit him up!) Color Grading Tips: • LUT: “Rec709 - Tommy” (Acid Bites), dialed to ~35% • Lower highlights + saturation • Tweak temp/tint/contrast • Add halation • Final touch: fine 16mm grain from Ezra Cohen

I hope this inspires you and brings out your inner sci-fi nerd 🤓 Congrats to the @grok team and @elonmusk. If you liked this, subscribe to my newsletter for the most cutting-edge AI filmmaking tips! It's free and takes 5 seconds.

This is really, REALLY fucking cool.

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Also kudos for including @wilfredlee he's totally amazing.

@wilfredlee super underrated!

@wilfredlee He made the #1 RunwayML Gen48 film during the very first edition. Got snubbed probably because of gore but it was f--king brilliant.

@Kling_ai Top AI artists?, you didn't include @Kazi5isAlive or @Macbaconai @ciguleva is the AI artist GOAT

@Kling_ai @Kazi5isAlive @Macbaconai @ciguleva we invited Mac but the timing didn't work out on this one!

@FrankJaeger_OK @Kling_ai @Kazi5isAlive @ciguleva We'll cook again PJ! 🫡

@FrankJaeger_OK @Kling_ai @Kazi5isAlive @ciguleva yes!

@Macbaconai @Kling_ai @Kazi5isAlive @ciguleva I just wanted to be annoying while giving a shoutout to my favorites, still thanks for answering.

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Was this a free promo for X, or did they commission it? Fantastic visuals + sound, but the colour grading is what puts the cherry on top!

Wild cinematography

Loved this!! Also we loved how you brought together a bunch of AI Artists into figma to collaborate, and we are actually looking to turn our app into multiplayer collaboration AI content tool, where things like this would be possible all in one spot. Id love to chat with you about this.

Great vibes from this. Works very well.

in an age of veo 3 slop...midjourney driven vids endure

Great job! It's a cinematic AI work of art 👏

Woow, great job!

The shoots are amazing! great great job!

Dude this was so freaking good. The sailboat motion got me.

I wish the narration ended at “what question could change the course of humanity”

Your thread is everybody's favorite! #TopUnroll 🙏🏼@gdoLDD for 🥇unroll

God this inspires me so much to go all out on @BasedLabsAI and make a sick video editor/storyboard tool

Wow amazing work ..love it 😍

🎶🚀🎶🤩

That ending shot 🔥🔥🔥

Excellent work! xAI should buy and use this superb ad. 👏

S/o to these folks saying this vid is ugly 🤣 I’ll add more pain to their tables

Here before this blows up! 🔥

amount of alpha you’re sharing in the newsletter is insane man

Glad you like it! I’m mostly just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks but…uh…I’ve learned I have very stick shit? 😅💩

*sticky

see we skipped right over the AGI conversation ... there were some that said it would happen ... 😆🤪👍

Garbage In = Garbage Out

Congratulations….this is fantastic….visuals, sound, colors…story in seconds…🎈🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️

Awesome

Well done as usual PJ 💪

Fire

How do you get grok 4 it’s not working for me?

That was beautiful! So glad you took the time to do this!

wow PJ, amazing. made a simple one. hope you like it

Wow I just want to say I WANT TO WORK WITH YOU !!!

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Great collaboration! This is incredible work! 🔥