{"id":916204,"date":"2025-03-22T07:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T02:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916204"},"modified":"2025-03-22T08:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T02:34:45","slug":"elon-musks-xai-acquires-aakash-sastrys-ai-video-generator-hotshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/22\/elon-musks-xai-acquires-aakash-sastrys-ai-video-generator-hotshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI acquires Aakash Sastry\u2019s AI video generator Hotshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s AI company xAI has acquired two-year-old AI video startup Hotshot, amid its push to accelerate innovation in multimodal foundation models. These foundation models are essentially large AI models that can process and comprehend different kinds of data including video, audio, images, and text in a single unified system. <\/p>\n<p>Announcing the acquisition in a post on X, HotShot\u2019s Co-founder and CEO Aakash Sastry said over the past two years the company has built three video foundation models \u2013 Hotshot-XL, Hotshot Act One, and Hotshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s AI company xAI has acquired two-year-old AI video startup Hotshot, amid its push to accelerate innovation in multimodal foundation models. These foundation models are essentially large AI models that can process and comprehend different kinds of data including video, audio, images, and text in a single unified system. Announcing the acquisition in a post on X, HotShot\u2019s Co-founder and CEO Aakash Sastry said over the past two years the company has built three video foundation models \u2013 Hotshot-XL, Hotshot Act One, and Hotshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}