X, the Elon Musk-owned social community beforehand generally known as Twitter, has added a brand new picture generator to its Grok assistant. Nevertheless, after going reside for a number of hours on Saturday, the product appeared to disappear for some customers.
So this new @grok picture technology referred to as Aurora simply shipped on a Saturday, what do we expect people?
Seems to be like educated by them, no evals or particulars, simply, right here you go, use the factor.
Identical to the first picture generator X added to Grok in October, this one, referred to as Aurora, seems to have few restrictions.
Accessible by the Grok tab on X’s cell apps and the online, Aurora can generate pictures of public and copyrighted figures, like Mickey Mouse, with out grievance. The mannequin stopped in need of nudes in our transient exams, however graphic content material, like “an image of a bloodied [Donald] Trump,” wasn’t off limits.
Picture Credit:X
Aurora’s origins are a bit murky.
Staffers at xAI, Musk’s AI startup, which develops Grok and plenty of of X’s AI-powered options, introduced Aurora in posts on X early Saturday. However the posts didn’t reveal whether or not xAI educated Aurora itself, constructed on high of an present picture generator, or, as was the case with xAI’s first picture generator, Flux, collaborated with a 3rd social gathering.
No less than one xAI worker stated they helped fine-tune Aurora, although.
Behold my pictures utilizing the brand new Grok @grok picture generator Aurora: 🧵
In any case, Aurora appears to excel at photorealistic pictures, together with pictures of landscapes and nonetheless lifes. Nevertheless it’s not flawless. X customers posted Aurora-generated pictures exhibiting objects mixing unnaturally collectively and folks with out fingers. (Fingers are notoriously arduous for picture turbines.)
The discharge of Aurora comes after X made Grok free for all customers; beforehand, the chatbot was gated behind X’s $8-per-month Premium subscription. Free customers can ship as much as 10 messages to Grok each two hours and generate as much as 3 pictures per day.
In different X and xAI information this week, xAI closed a $6 billion funding spherical, is reportedly engaged on a standalone app for Grok, and could also be on cusp of releasing its next-generation Grok mannequin, Grok 3.
Simply the beta model, however it is going to enhance very quick
