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This month, the AI assistant on X released a new image generator called Aurora. xAI, Musk’s AI startup, developed it, and it is accessible through the Grok tab on X’s mobile apps and the web.
“This is our internal image generation system,” Musk wrote Saturday in a post on X. “Still in beta, but it will improve fast.”
Without complaint, it can generate images of public and copyrighted figures, like Mickey Mouse.
TechCrunch said that the model stopped short of nudes, but graphic content, like “an image of a bloodied Trump,” wasn’t off limits.
The company didn’t reveal whether xAI trained Aurora itself, built on top of an existing image generator, or, as was the case with xAI’s first image generator, Flux, collaborated with a third party.
The release of Aurora comes after X made Grok free for all users, who can send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours and generate up to 3 images per day.
In other X and xAI news this month, xAI closed a $6 billion funding round.
So this new @grok image generation called Aurora just shipped on a Saturday, what do we think folks?
Looks like trained by them, no evals or details, just, here you go, use the thing.
Seems focused on photo realism
— Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) (@altryne) December 7, 2024
