X, the Elon Musk-owned social community beforehand referred to as Twitter, has added a brand new picture generator to its Grok assistant. Nevertheless, after going reside for a couple of hours on Saturday, the product appeared to vanish for some customers.
So this new @grok picture technology known as Aurora simply shipped on a Saturday, what do we expect of us?
Seems to be like educated by them, no evals or particulars, simply, right here you go, use the factor.
Identical to the primary picture generator X added to Grok in October, this one, known as Aurora, seems to have few restrictions.
Accessible by the Grok tab on X’s cellular apps and the net, Aurora can generate photos of public and copyrighted figures, like Mickey Mouse, with out grievance. The mannequin stopped wanting nudes in our transient assessments, however graphic content material, like “a picture 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 current picture generator, or, as was the case with xAI’s first picture generator, Flux, collaborated with a 3rd occasion.
No less than one xAI worker mentioned they helped fine-tune Aurora, although.
Behold my photos utilizing the brand new Grok @grok picture generator Aurora: 🧵
In any case, Aurora appears to excel at photorealistic photos, together with photos of landscapes and nonetheless lifes. However it’s not flawless. X customers posted Aurora-generated photos displaying objects mixing unnaturally collectively and other people with out fingers. (Fingers are notoriously onerous for picture turbines.)
It’s a nice mannequin for sure issues, however removed from excellent https://t.co/AOcs92M5TF
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 photos 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
