Grok Imagine Video 1.5 on AI Gateway

XAI released Grok Imagine Video 1.5 on AI Gateway, a model that generates video from an input image with synchronized audio in a single pass. The update improves audio quality, prompt following, photorealism, face accuracy, and character consistency across longer sequences. The model is available through AI Gateway, which provides a unified API for model access, usage tracking, and performance optimization.

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 from xAI is now available on AI Gateway. The model generates video from an input image with synchronized audio in a single pass. This release improves audio quality, prompt following, and photorealism. Face accuracy and character consistency are stronger across longer sequences, with better lighting and physical realism in the output. Reference image support has been expanded to give more control over visual style and subject. To use this model, set model to xai/grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview in the AI SDK. Chain an image model with Grok Imagine Video 1.5 to generate a still and animate it in one flow: You can also try this Grok Imagine Video 1.5 directly in the AI Gateway Playground https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview . AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in custom reporting https://vercel.com/changelog/custom-reporting-ai-gateway , Zero Data Retention support https://vercel.com/blog/zdr-on-ai-gateway , dynamic provider sorting by latency and cost https://vercel.com/changelog/sort-providers-by-cost-latency-or-throughput-on-ai-gateway , and more. AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway bring-your-own-key BYOK requests. Learn more about AI Gateway https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway and view the AI Gateway model leaderboard https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/leaderboards .