Voice Cloning is now live via the xAI API! Create a custom voice in less than 2 minutes or select from our library of 80+ voices across 28 languages to personalize your voice agents, audiobooks, video game characters, and more. http://x.ai/news/grok-custom-voices
- Views
- 204M
- Likes
- 26.3K
- Reposts
- 2.5K
- Quotes
- 474
- Bookmarks
- 11.7K
- Engagement
- 0.02%
What did xAI post?
The post came from the @SpaceXSI account (display name "SpaceX Super Intelligence") on Friday, May 1, 2026, at 23:23 UTC. That account has about 2.1 million followers.
The text reads in full: "Voice Cloning is now live via the xAI API!" Then: "Create a custom voice in less than 2 minutes or select from our library of 80+ voices across 28 languages to personalize your voice agents, audiobooks, video game characters, and more." The last line is a link to x.ai/news/grok-custom-voices.
How was the post built?
It has three blocks. A headline sentence with the product name and the word "live", one sentence of detail with numbers, and a link.
The media is a single video, 31.9 seconds long, at 1920 by 1080. We have not watched it for this teardown, so we say nothing about what it shows.
- Line 1 names the product and says it is live.
- Line 2 gives two numbers: under 2 minutes to create a voice, and 80+ voices across 28 languages.
- Line 2 also lists four uses: voice agents, audiobooks, video game characters and more.
- The link sits alone at the bottom and points to xAI's own news page.
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Written up by Favikon, which ran a launch with us: over 100,000 views.
What do the numbers say?
The post also has 2,496 reposts, 1,376 replies and 474 quote tweets. Together with likes, that is 30,647 reactions on over 204 million views.
Against the tracker, the post is about 665 times the median launch on views.
- Views
- 204M+
- Likes
- 26,301
- Bookmarks
- 11,689
- Rank by views in the tracker
- #1 of 942
| Measure | xAI Voice Cloning | Tracker median |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 204 million | 307K |
| Engagement rate | about 0.015% | 0.42% |
| Views per follower | about 98 | 2.9 |
Why are the views so far above the engagement?
Engagement here means likes, reposts, replies and quotes per view. At about 0.015%, this post sits well under the 0.42% median.
X counts views from paid promotion in a post's total, and the post does not say how much, if any, was promoted. The gap is worth noting. We do not claim to explain it.
Bookmarks are a useful second signal. At 11,689, they are about 0.006% of views.
What should a founder copy from it?
The post is short and every line does a job. Nothing in it needs a thread to explain it.
How would this launch run with creators quote tweeting it?
A company without a 2.1 million follower account has to get its reach from other people's feeds. Gridd gets 60 to 100 personal-brand creators to quote tweet a launch post inside the first hour, from a network of 1,000+ founders, engineers and builders on X, so the views come from real people's feeds.
See the full numbers, the launch tracker or how it works.
Questions people ask
- When did xAI launch Voice Cloning?
- The launch post went up on May 1, 2026, at 23:23 UTC, from the @SpaceXSI account.
- How many views did the xAI Voice Cloning launch post get?
- Over 204 million views, read on November 14, 2026. That is #1 of 942 launches in the Gridd tracker, about 98 views per follower.
- What format did the xAI Voice Cloning launch use?
- One post with a 32-second 1080p video, three short text blocks and a link to xAI's news page. It was not a thread.
Written by Madni Aghadi and Siddhant Choudhary, the founders of Gridd. They run every Gridd launch on X themselves, from the cast and the briefs to the launch hour.