AI Daily Brief — 28 January 2026

xAI launches the Grok Imagine API — a unified bundle of generative endpoints for end-to-end creative workflows. Capabilities: text-to-image, image editing, image-to-video, text-to-video with native audio. xAI claims #1 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena for both Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video, beating Runway Gen-4.5, Kling 2.5 Turbo and Veo 3.1. Pricing: $0.02/image (T2I), $0.022/image edit, $0.05/sec at 480p / $0.07/sec at 720p video.

Top stories

• xAI Grok Imagine API. T2I + image-edit + I2V + T2V (with audio); claimed #1 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena (T2V + I2V). via xAI
• Project Panama coverage amplifies. Tech Brew, Futurism and LitHub pick up Tuesday’s Washington Post investigation; community pressure on Anthropic continues to grow. via Tech Brew

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from publicly reported announcements on 28 January 2026.