Good morning. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 just went live on the consumer app with new workflow features. Lionsgate took an equity stake in Runway and they're making AI-generated shows from existing franchises. And a hyper-emotional AI clip of a baby orangutan saving a toddler at a zoo fooled millions before fact-checkers caught it. Have you tried Grok Imagine on mobile yet? Hit reply and tell me. We cover all three below.
📹 Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Is Now Live on the App and It Has New Workflow Tools
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is out of preview and generally available everywhere. It's live on web, the iOS app, the Android app, and the API. We covered the leaderboard debut two weeks ago. Now it's in your pocket.
The model upgrades are the same ones that took the #1 spot: native audio generated in the same pass as video, better motion and physics, clearer dialogue and lip sync. But the consumer rollout adds workflow features that matter for creators. Projects let you organize work into folders on the sidebar. Multiple agents let you run several prompts in parallel instead of waiting for one to finish. And search lets you find any image or video you've ever made without scrolling.
The 1.5 Fast model generates a 6-second 720p clip in about 25 seconds, down from 40+ on the previous version. For creators testing ideas quickly, that's a meaningful difference. Grok went from losing users to shipping the top-ranked video model with a consumer app and workflow tools in about a month. If you wrote it off, it's time to check back in.
Lionsgate Just Took an Equity Stake in Runway
This isn't just another partnership announcement. Lionsgate took an equity stake in Runway and the two companies are launching a joint development program to create new IP using Runway's generative models. The first project: a short-form episodic series built from Lionsgate's existing library. That library includes John Wick, The Hunger Games, Twilight, and Saw, plus thousands of other titles.
Lionsgate was the first Hollywood studio to partner with an AI company back in 2024. It was the first to hire a Chief AI Officer. Now it's the first to take equity in one. The deal isn't a cash investment. Financial terms weren't disclosed. But the signal is clear: Lionsgate is treating Runway as a core part of its production infrastructure, not an experiment.
For creators, the question this raises is what happens to AI-generated franchise content. Will characters from existing IP show up in AI-generated shorts? How do guilds, writers, and actors factor in? Disney's Sora deal already collapsed. Lionsgate is betting this one sticks. If it does, it's the template for how studios and AI companies work together going forward.
A Fake AI Clip of a Baby Orangutan Saving a Toddler Fooled Millions
A clip showing a baby orangutan rushing to help a fallen toddler at a zoo went massively viral this week. The baby orangutan runs over, tries to lift the child, and then an adult orangutan steps in to carry the toddler back to the crowd. It hit 8 million views and 50K likes in under 24 hours. People were sharing it as a heartwarming real event.
Community notes and fact-checkers flagged it as AI-generated. There are no credible news reports of a toddler falling into an orangutan enclosure in June 2026. The footage has visual artifacts and physics inconsistencies typical of AI video tools. The format is identical to the gorilla-handing-back-baby clips from the same AI channels that have been running this playbook for over a year.
This is the same pattern as the Ernesto AGT clip, the security camera animals, and the goddess fans. The most viral AI content right now isn't flashy or cinematic. It's emotional. The clips that fool the most people are the ones designed to make you feel something before you think to question whether it's real. For AI video creators, this is both the opportunity and the warning. The tools are powerful enough to manufacture emotion at scale. What you do with that says everything.