{"slug": "grok-imagine-video-1-5-preview-tops-image-to-video-arena", "title": "Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview Tops Image-to-Video Arena", "summary": "XAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview has claimed the top spot on the Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard with an Elo score of 1473, surpassing ByteDance's model at 1467. The ranking, which aggregates over 1.1 million votes across 40 models, positions xAI's proprietary technology as the leading image-to-video AI as of May 29, 2026.", "body_md": "# Image-to-Video Arena\n\nView overall rankings across image to video AI models.\n\nMay 29, 2026\n\n1,155,731 votes\n\n40 models\n\nRank Spread | ||||\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 1 | 12 | xAI · Proprietary | 1473±9 | 5,564 |\n| 2 | 12 | Bytedance · Proprietary | 1467±11 | 56,710 |\n| 3 | 33 | Alibaba-ATH · Proprietary | 1443±12 | 33,267 |\n| 4 | 44 | xAI · Proprietary | 1421±6 | 380,580 |\n| 5 | 58 | Google · Proprietary | 1397±11 | 25,113 |\n| 6 | 59 | Google · Proprietary | 1393±10 | 24,381 |\n| 7 | 59 | Google · Proprietary | 1384±9 | 99,851 |\n| 8 | 59 | xAI · Proprietary | 1383±9 | 19,415 |\n| 9 | 611 | Google · Proprietary | 1374±11 | 24,874 |\n| 10 | 911 | Shengshu · Proprietary | 1360±8 | 36,674 |\n| 11 | 911 | KlingAI · Proprietary | 1358±9 | 97,028 |\n| 12 | 1215 | Google · Proprietary | 1330±11 | 32,383 |\n| 13 | 1215 | Alibaba · Proprietary | 1326±11 | 13,910 |\n| 14 | 1215 | Google · Proprietary | 1324±9 | 41,215 |\n| 15 | 1217 | Alibaba · Proprietary | 1317±11 | 59,311 |\n| 16 | 1518 | Bytedance · Proprietary | 1306±8 | 196,539 |\n| 17 | 1518 | Pixverse · Proprietary | 1301±9 | 90,999 |\n| 18 | 1619 | KlingAI · Proprietary | 1293±8 | 162,913 |\n| 19 | 1823 | KlingAI · Proprietary | 1274±12 | 3,791 |\n| 20 | 1923 | Bytedance · Proprietary | 1272±7 | 34,028 |\n| 21 | 1925 | MiniMax · Proprietary | 1258±6 | 200,973 |\n| 22 | 1925 | Google · Proprietary | 1256±10 | 26,297 |\n| 23 | 1925 | Google · Proprietary | 1255±10 | 26,105 |\n| 24 | 2131 | Pruna · Proprietary | 1243±16 | 23,372 |\n| 25 | 2131 | Shengshu · Proprietary | 1242±17 | 2,506 |\n| 26 | 2431 | KlingAI · Proprietary | 1234±8 | 29,849 |\n| 27 | 2431 | MiniMax · Proprietary | 1227±10 | 21,751 |\n| 28 | 2431 | KlingAI · Proprietary | 1227±8 | 29,952 |\n| 29 | 2432 | Luma AI · Proprietary | 1225±19 | 1,588 |\n| 30 | 2431 | MiniMax · Proprietary | 1222±9 | 21,782 |\n| 31 | 2432 | Shengshu · Proprietary | 1222±17 | 2,608 |\n| 32 | 3035 | Tencent · tencent-hunyuan-community | 1195±15 | 5,475 |\n| 33 | 3234 | MiniMax · Proprietary | 1192±10 | 22,549 |\n| 34 | 3236 | Bytedance · Proprietary | 1184±8 | 33,754 |\n| 35 | 3436 | Alibaba · Apache 2.0 | 1169±10 | 27,067 |\n| 36 | 3336 | Google · Proprietary | 1164±16 | 10,319 |\n| 37 | 3737 | lightricks · ltx-2-community-license-agreement | 1141±7 | 146,473 |\n| 38 | 3838 | Luma AI · Proprietary | 1106±16 | 9,527 |\n| 39 | 3939 | Runway · Proprietary | 1051±13 | 6,811 |\n| 40 | 4040 | Pika · Proprietary | 995±13 | 8,655 |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-imagine-video-1-5-preview-tops-image-to-video-arena", "canonical_source": "https://arena.ai/leaderboard/image-to-video", "published_at": "2026-05-31 01:35:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-31 01:45:59.705762+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-research", "artificial-intelligence", "computer-vision"], "entities": ["xAI", "Bytedance", "Alibaba", "Google", "KlingAI", "Pixverse", "MiniMax", "Shengshu"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-imagine-video-1-5-preview-tops-image-to-video-arena", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-imagine-video-1-5-preview-tops-image-to-video-arena.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-imagine-video-1-5-preview-tops-image-to-video-arena.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-imagine-video-1-5-preview-tops-image-to-video-arena.jsonld"}}