--- title: Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute episode, and... description: Elon Musk's AI-generated take on the Odyssey arrived as a seven-minute first episode, not the full film he had promised, and critics panned it. Grok Imagine's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/musk-s-ai-odyssey-arrives-as-a-seven-minute-episode-and-critics-pan-it-4u8pq5p2x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute episode, and critics pan it | daily.dev og:description: Elon Musk's AI-generated take on the Odyssey arrived as a seven-minute first episode, not the full film he had promised, and critics panned it. Grok Imagine's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/musk-s-ai-odyssey-arrives-as-a-seven-minute-episode-and-critics-pan-it-4u8pq5p2x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4U8PQ5p2x.png og:image:alt: Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute episode, and critics pan it og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute episode, and critics pan it **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Elon Musk's AI-generated take on the Odyssey arrived as a seven-minute first episode, not the full film he had promised, and critics panned it. Grok Imagine's video tool powered the production, made by London startup Wonder Studios with director Dev Walker in under two weeks for tens of thousands of dollars. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave it one star, calling it 'as motiveless and meaningless as the movement of shapes on a laptop screensaver'. It still drew 7.9 million views on X. A second AI series, Turkey's Castle Walls on Prime Video, and China's AI feature Sanxingdui also faced harsh reviews despite early milestones. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What AI tool did Elon Musk use to make his AI Odyssey video, and how was it received? Elon Musk used Grok Imagine, xAI's video generation tool, to produce a seven-minute first episode of an AI-made Odyssey, created by Wonder Studios with director Dev Walker in under two weeks for tens of thousands of dollars. The Guardian's critic gave it one star, calling it 'as motiveless and meaningless as the movement of shapes on a laptop screensaver', though it drew 7.9 million views on X. _Following how AI video tools like Grok Imagine perform in real productions is easier when you track the coverage on daily.dev._ ### Is there an AI-generated TV series streaming on a major platform like Amazon Prime? Castle Walls, produced by Turkish studio Ay Yapım, premiered on Amazon Prime Video and is billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series on a major streaming platform. It consists of two 17-minute episodes set at Alamut Castle in the 11th century, used human voice actors and human screenwriters for scripts, but received a harsh review calling the AI characters 'Vaseline-smeared Madame Tussauds creations'. _Developers tracking how AI-generated video stacks up against human production can follow these milestones on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’](https://daily.dev/posts/grok-releases-the-first-seven-minutes-of-its-ai-generated-odyssey--xb0aufvoo) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Darren Aronofsky's AI-Generated Series Fails to Inspire the People](https://daily.dev/posts/darren-aronofsky-s-ai-generated-series-fails-to-inspire-the-people-vgyq27hp2) · 80 LEVEL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Elon Musk uses Grok to imagine the possibility of love](https://daily.dev/posts/elon-musk-uses-grok-to-imagine-the-possibility-of-love-bnvstfztp) · TechCrunch · 3 upvotes · 1 comments - [The AI Hype Index: The people can’t get enough of AI slop](https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-hype-index-the-people-can-t-get-enough-of-ai-slop-dqmzee8yc) · MIT Technology Review · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/musk-s-ai-odyssey-arrives-as-a-seven-minute-episode-and-critics-pan-it-4u8pq5p2x) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute episode, and critics pan it","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/musk-s-ai-odyssey-arrives-as-a-seven-minute-episode-and-critics-pan-it-4u8pq5p2x","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/musk-s-ai-odyssey-arrives-as-a-seven-minute-episode-and-critics-pan-it-4u8pq5p2x"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T15:01:33.487Z","dateModified":"2026-10-28T15:45:33.909Z","description":"Elon Musk's AI-generated take on the Odyssey arrived as a seven-minute first episode, not the full film he had promised, and critics panned it. 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