X, the Elon Musk-owned social community beforehand often known as Twitter, has added a brand new picture generator to its Grok assistant. Nonetheless, after going reside for a number of hours on Saturday, the product appeared to disappear for some customers.
So this new @grok picture technology known as Aurora simply shipped on a Saturday, what do we predict people?
Seems 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, known as Aurora, seems to have few restrictions.
Accessible by means of the Grok tab on X’s cell apps and the online, Aurora can generate photographs of public and copyrighted figures, like Mickey Mouse, with out grievance. The mannequin stopped in need of nudes in our temporary 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 lots 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 current picture generator, or, as was the case with xAI’s first picture generator, Flux, collaborated with a 3rd social gathering.
At the very least one xAI worker stated they helped fine-tune Aurora, although.
Behold my photographs utilizing the brand new Grok @grok picture generator Aurora: 🧵
In any case, Aurora appears to excel at photorealistic photographs, together with photographs of landscapes and nonetheless lifes. But it surely’s not flawless. X customers posted Aurora-generated photographs displaying objects mixing unnaturally collectively and other people with out fingers. (Arms are notoriously exhausting for picture mills.)
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 photographs 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’s going to enhance very quick
