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X , the Elon Musk - owned social meshing previously be intimate as Twitter , has added a new effigy author to itsGrokassistant . However , after blend live for a few hours on Saturday , the merchandise seemed todisappear for some users .
So this new@grokimage generation called Aurora just shipped on a Saturday , what do we think folks ?
Looks like train by them , no evals or details , just , here you go , employ the thing .
Seems focused on photo realness
— Alex Volkov ( Thursd / AI ) ( @altryne)December 7 , 2024
Just like thefirst image generatorX added to Grok in October , this one , called Aurora , appear to have few restrictions .
approachable through the Grok tab on X ’s nomadic apps and the web , Aurora can father epitome of public and copyrighted physical body , like Mickey Mouse , without complaint . The model stopped myopic of nude in our abbreviated tests , but graphical content , like “ an range of a bloodied [ Donald ] Trump , ” was n’t off limits .
Aurora ’s origins are a bit murky .
Staffersat xAI , Musk ’s AI startup , which educate Grok and many of X ’s AI - power features , announced Aurora in post on ex early Saturday . But the posts did n’t reveal whether xAI trained Aurora itself , built on top of an existing image generator , or , as was the case with xAI ’s first prototype author , Flux , collaboratedwith a third party .
At least one xAI employeesaidthey helped fine - tune Aurora , though . And Muskalludedto xAI having its own “ image generation organisation ” under exploitation in August .
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“ This is our interior image generation system , ” MuskwroteSaturday in a post on X. “ Still in beta , but it will ameliorate fast . ”
Behold my effigy using the young Grok@grokimage generator Aurora : 🧵
1 . Ray Romano and@AdamSandleron a sitcom setpic.twitter.com/2V491RdjMF
— Matt ( @EnsoMatt)December 7 , 2024
In any case , Aurora seems to excel at photorealistic image , including images of landscapes and still lifes . But it ’s not unflawed . 10 substance abuser posted Aurora - generated images showing objects blend unnaturally together and the great unwashed without fingerbreadth . ( hired man are notoriously heavy for trope generator . )
It is a gravid model for sealed matter , but far from perfecthttps://t.co/AOcs92M5TF
— AI Leaks and News ( @AILeaksAndNews)December 7 , 2024
The sacking of Aurora comes after Xmade Grok freefor all drug user ; antecedently , the chatbot was gate behind X ’s $ 8 - per - month Premium subscription . Free users can send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours and generate up to 3 images per Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .
In other X and xAI news this week , xAIcloseda $ 6 billion financial support round , is reportedly working on a standalone app for Grok , and may be on cusp of release its next - generation Grok model , Grok 3 .
Just the beta version , but it will improve very tight
This Emily Post has been update to reflect that Aurora seems to have been taken down .
