Xai acquires text-to-video-AI project Hotshot

Elon Musk's AI startup made its first acquisition, with the videoogenization project lighting that Xai bought its business.

Hotshot, which has built up a series of AI models of text-to-video and text-to-gif-Ki models, has gained the drive effect among AI enthusiasts for his rapidly developing AI video models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMU-S7QMGPY

And now this technology is being included in the Xai stack, in which X users can shortly be able to generate video clips from text within the app.

Well, at least pay X users.

As announced by Hotspot:

“In the past 2 years we have trained 3 video foundation models-Hot-XL, Hotshot Act One and Hotshot. We see this video models as an early look at the future of learning, entertainment, communication and many more. We are pleased to continue to scale these efforts to the largest cluster in the world, Colossus, as part of Xai. “

The supercomputer cluster of XAIS “Colossus” in Memphis was put together in 122 days and is now organizing 200,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, which brings the project into harmony with the computing power of other important AI projects.

As a result, the Hotshot team will be available more resources for their ambitions, in which the advanced text-to-video capacity will soon take place to X's Grok Chatbot.

In the response to the announcement, X Corp boss Elon Musk simply noticed the following:

As already mentioned, this is the first acquisition of Xai after it has won more than $ 12 billion in funds in the past two years.

The project is separated from X of the Social Media app, although both flow into the “X Corp” business, while the two are also incorporated into each other, whereby X -Posts operating Xai projects, and the GROK chat bot from Xai, which is now available in the X -App.

While they are separated, they are also connected to themselves, which Musk could theoretically enable, funds from Xai to X if necessary.

However, the broader hope is that Xai will eventually become a unity, with real-time knowledge of X offering a more valuable AI tool for active commitment and trend inspection. This could be valuable in a number of species, although the use of X's Grok Chatbot still seems to be quite limited in this phase.

Perhaps the video creation is an important step to increase the GROK adoption and is a more practical competitor for Openai and Meta -KI projects.

I mean, the Openai is who really wants to beat Elon for personal reasons, but Meta also urges to be the AI ​​leader, and with Musk and Co., who previously blew up as “to be awakened” rival -ai -ai projects, Xai could also be a protection against what he sees as an open censorship within AI tools.

In any case, it is another step in the broader AI race that could help keep Xai in the game. I am not sure whether it will be able to keep up with meta, which is investing a further 65 billion US dollars in AI development this year alone, but Musk also has the interior of the pending AI revision of the US government, which could gain many lucrative development contracts at.

It is of course a conflict of interest, but it probably seems that Xai will be at least a leading candidate for these efforts.