Elon Musk posted on July 22 that Grok Imagine will produce a full-length AI-generated version of Homer's The Odyssey before the end of 2026, sharing a three-minute short created by a follower. The post escalated Musk's months-long criticism of director Christopher Nolan's planned theatrical adaptation of the same epic.
In a separate post on July 22, Musk said he was "down" to give filmmaker Mel Gibson $100 million to film a competing Odyssey adaptation. Gibson's version, Musk wrote, would feature "painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek."
Earlier in the measurement window, Musk trained his posts on SpaceX stock dynamics. On July 17, he warned short sellers that their "survival probability" was "very low" after the company's shares had fallen roughly 30% from their peak above $2.6 trillion following its Nasdaq debut in June 2026. By July 21, Musk announced that SpaceX's "massive corpus of world-class engineering data" would be fed into the next Grok training run, a "2T run" of roughly two trillion parameters.
The surge in posting activity coincided with the launch of Grok 4.5 on July 8, which Musk described as comparable to Anthropic's Opus 4.7 but faster and cheaper to run. The model was partly trained on data from SpaceX's $60 billion all-stock acquisition of coding startup Cursor.
Musk's posting activity during the week—including the Odyssey announcement, the SpaceX short-seller warning, and the Grok training data reveal—has drawn widespread media coverage. The final tally for the seven-day period will be determined by a designated tracking tool.
