Elon Musk takes out the checkbook: XAI bought a company to generate IA videos
It's not just Sora, which will directly integrate Chatgptin the field of AI capable of generating videos. To retaliate to companies that offer such tools, XAI offers Hotshot. On X, the director general and co -founder of the company welcomed this takeover.
Xai offers Hotshot to generate videos
Monday March 17, 2025, Aakash Sastry spoke on the Elon Musk social network: “In the past two years, we have developed three fundamental video models as a small team-Hotshot-XL, Hosthot Act One and Hotshot”. The creation of these models has allowed us to glimpse how global education, entertainment, communication and productivity will evolve in the years to come. We are enthusiastic about the idea of continuing these large -scale efforts on Colossus, the largest computing cluster in the world, as a member of XAI! “
Hotshot was founded by Aakash Sastry and John Mullan. The company, based in San Francisco, was first specialized in the creation and publishing of photos assisted by AI before moving on to video generation tools.
Before its acquisition, Hotshot attracted investments in venture capital like Lachy Groom, by the co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, or SV Angel. The start-up has never disclosed the amount of its fundraising.
The acquisition of Hotshot by Xai gives an index to the future of Elon Musk's AI: the possible development of its own tools to generate videos and compete with Sora d'Opnai, company against which the billionaire is on trials. During a live broadcast in January 2025, Donald Trump's right arm said it was necessary to expect a model “Grok Video” be launched “In a few months”.
Hotshot has not been able to generate videos since March 14. Users already registered have until March 30 to download the videos they created. For the moment, we do not know if all the staff of the start-up will join Xai and Aakash Sastry refused to comment on the subject, questioned by Techcrunch.
