Researcher · Founder · Executive
Aakash Sastry
Current role not listed
Sastry co-founded Hotshot, whose small team built three video foundation models, including tools for animating characters and generating short clips. After xAI acquired the company, he joined its technical staff and brought Hotshot's video-model expertise into the Grok product family.
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