# The Gifted Wins the Future Vision XPRIZE

- Date: 2026-09-25
- Type: news
- Credit: XPRIZE / JeffSynthesized
- Post: https://x.com/JeffSynthesized/status/2104632834275291204
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/the-gifted-wins-future-vision-xprize

JeffSynthesized's [The Gifted](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/the-gifted) won the Future Vision XPRIZE, a $3.5 million-plus competition for hopeful science fiction, announced live at Moonshots LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. It beat more than 2,500 trailers and treatments from about 40 countries, judged by a panel that included Neil deGrasse Tyson, Neal Stephenson, Google's Mira Lane and Rod Roddenberry, and it also took first place in the public-vote SPECS Audience Choice Award.

The prize is a path to a feature: a $2.5 million equity investment in the full-length film plus $100,000 for the screenplay, with Range Media Partners and Google's 100 Zeros initiative backing development and committed to helping raise another $12 million, and a public investment round through Republic. An AI-made trailer had been a pitch for years. Here it became the thing that financed the movie.

Links:
- XPRIZE: The Gifted wins the Future Vision XPRIZE: https://www.xprize.org/news/the-gifted-wins-the-future-vision-xprize
- JeffSynthesized on X: https://x.com/JeffSynthesized/status/2104632834275291204
- GamesBeat: https://gamesbeat.com/ai-short-film-the-gifted-wins-3-5m-xprize-and-chance-to-become-feature-movie/
- The Gifted (film): /entry/the-gifted

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/the-gifted-wins-future-vision-xprize
Era: 2026 · The Shakeout
Last updated: 2026-09-29