Summary
On October 8, 2026, Vercel made xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite available through AI Gateway, so developers can generate video from a single API key with unified billing and request traces.
What changed
Vercel added xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite to AI Gateway. The generative video model is callable with one API key, with Gateway providing unified billing and request traces alongside Vercel's other hosted models.
Why it matters
Most AI Gateway additions have been text, decision, or audio models; adding a lightweight generative video model lets apps call video generation through the same key, billing, and tracing path they already use, lowering the integration cost of adding video to AI features and extending the gateway's catalog into a higher-cost, higher-latency modality.
Evidence excerpt
xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite can be called through AI Gateway with one API key, unified billing, and request traces.