X, the Elon Musk-owned social community beforehand often 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 asserting 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 submit, xAI stated that Aurora “excels at photorealistic rendering” and following textual content directions, and may “take inspiration from or directly edit user-provided images.”
Aurora is now obtainable on X via Grok in choose nations and can roll out to all customers inside every week, xAI stated. Assist for enhancing present photos 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, similar to the primary picture generator X added to Grok in October. Accessible via the Grok tab on X’s cell apps and the net, Aurora might generate photos of public and copyrighted figures, like Mickey Mouse, with out criticism.
The mannequin stopped in need of nudes in our transient exams. However graphic content material wasn’t off limits.
Aurora additionally wasn’t flawless, nevertheless. On Saturday, X customers posted Aurora-generated photos displaying objects mixing unnaturally collectively and folks with out fingers. (Arms are notoriously arduous for picture turbines.)
