# Grok Imagine's $175K Odyssey Contest

- Date: 2026-08-17
- Type: news
- Credit: xAI / X
- Post: https://x.com/grok/status/2089443401695470006
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/grok-odyssey-contest

"Homer had a lyre. You have Grok Imagine." xAI launched a two-week contest with a $175,000 pool for 3-to-5-minute scenes from the Odyssey made in Grok Imagine. The subtext was hard to miss: weeks after Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opened to $264M, Elon Musk had pledged a "historically accurate" Grok Odyssey by year-end. The contest crowdsourced the audition.

Winners came September 4. NemPerez took the $100K grand prize for a five-minute film, JSFilmz took $50K for an original ending, and Allen T. took $25K for a Polyphemus horror film. After February's $1M ad contest, it's xAI's second big-purse bet that the fastest way to showcase a model is to pay its community to make films with it.

Links:
- Contest announcement (X): https://x.com/grok/status/2089443401695470006
- Winners announcement (X): https://x.com/imagine/status/2095977612778639618
- Entry rules (X): https://x.com/grok/status/2089443403436061164
- Official contest terms: https://legal.x.com/en/odyssey-contest-terms.html
- Odyssey Challenge Cinematic Guide (Grok Imagine): https://x.com/imagine/article/2092675531057885288
- Social Media Today: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-offers-175k-for-grok-generated-versions-of-the-odyssey/828219/

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/grok-odyssey-contest
Era: 2026 · The Shakeout
Last updated: 2026-10-14