Before there was TikTok, there was Vine—the original short-form video platform that dominated the 2010s before it was bought and shut down by X in 2017. Earlier this year, Elon Musk hinted that he might be bringing the platform back “in AI form” but did not elaborate further on what he meant by that. Now, a few months after that news, the X owner has just announced that the Vine Archive is coming to the social media platform, doing good on his AI promises.
In a post on X, the platform owner said that they have found the video archive for Vine (which was previously thought lost) and are working on bringing it back so that users will be able to post them and share them. Unfortunately, outside of this announcement, the X owner made no additional mentions of when the feature will return, let alone his plans for it in the future.
Additionally, rather than saying people can make their own Vines by pointing a camera at their faces again, Musk stated that “Grok Imagine is AI Vine” in the same post, suggesting that people can create short-form videos with the power of AI. Perhaps he is advertising Grok Imagine’s feature where you can bring a still image into short video clips on top of its text-to-image capabilities.
If it wasn’t apparent already, Musk is already doubling down on the newly launched Grok Imagine, teasing people that it is a “meme motherlode” that “should only get better almost every day”. Naturally, it coinciding with the Vine Archive is likely no simple coincidence; Musk advertising the two together implies that users can apply the AI features on old Vines to make them relevant again on top of promoting Grok Imagine further. However, this remains to be seen until both platforms are fully operational in the future.
(Source: Engadget, Mashable SEA)
