According to 1M AI News monitoring, Musk posted on X that the future of AI mainly lies in video understanding and generation, “because photons are the highest-bandwidth communication form to date—these are key tools on the path to AGI,” and he also said that xAI’s image generation tool Grok Imagine “has positive gross margin and is not a money-losing project.”
The context for this statement is that OpenAI announced last week that it would shut down its AI video platform, Sora. According to The Wall Street Journal and reports from multiple media outlets, since Sora launched in September of last year, it has generated cumulative revenue of about $2.1 million. Reportedly, its average daily operating loss is around $1 million, and OpenAI also terminated its $1 billion collaboration agreement with Disney.
Musk did not disclose specific revenue figures for Grok Imagine. Previously, on March 25, he said, “The next version of Grok Imagine will be very impressive—we’re increasing our investment,” and he called it “a more important tool than people realize.”