X, the Elon Musk-owned social community beforehand generally known as Twitter, quietly added a brand new picture generator to its Grok assistant this previous Saturday. Then, it eliminated it. Now, it’s bringing it again — and formally saying it.
The picture generator, referred to as Aurora, was developed by Musk’s AI firm, xAI, and educated on billions of examples from the web. In a weblog publish, xAI mentioned that Aurora “excels at photorealistic rendering” and following textual content directions, and might “take inspiration from or directly edit user-provided images.”
Aurora is now out there on X by way of Grok in choose international locations and can roll out to all customers inside per week, xAI mentioned. Help for modifying current photographs will come at a later date.
“Grok can now generate high-quality images across several domains where other image generation models often struggle,” xAI wrote. “It can render precise visual details of real-world entities, text, logos, and can create realistic portraits of humans.”
When TechCrunch examined Aurora final weekend, it appeared to have few restrictions, identical to the first picture generator X added to Grok in October. Accessible by way of the Grok tab on X’s cell apps and the online, Aurora might generate photographs of public and copyrighted figures, like Mickey Mouse, with out grievance.
The mannequin stopped wanting nudes in our temporary checks. However graphic content material wasn’t off limits.
Aurora additionally wasn’t flawless, nonetheless. On Saturday, X customers posted Aurora-generated photographs exhibiting objects mixing unnaturally collectively and folks with out fingers. (Arms are notoriously laborious for picture turbines.)
