xAI Announces Aurora AI Image Generation Model for Grok 2bb68 Days After Its Removal

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Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 10 December 2024 15:57 IST

xAI Announces Aurora AI Image Generation Model for Grok, Days After Its Removal

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Currently, Aurora is available within Grok on X in select countries

Highlights

Aurora is an autoregressive image generation model
xAI says the model is trained on “billions of examples from the internet”
Grok’s Aurora AI model accepts images as input

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reported spotting Aurora in the model selector menu within the Grok interface and were able to generate images using the tool. However, it disappeared a few hours later and no explanation behind either the addition of the tool or its removal was given by the company. Now, three days later, the Elon Musk-owned AI firm has officially launched the AI tool.

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In a Grok's model selector.

Aurora is the code name of Grok's first native image generation model. Notably, currently image generation on Grok is ed by Flux, an AI model developed by Black Forest Labs. Aurora is an autoregressive mixture-of-experts (MoE) network, which the company claims has been trained on “billions of examples from the internet”. xAI says the model displays high proficiency in generating photorealistic images and adhering to the prompt.

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The AI image generator can create text, logos, objects, as well as realistic portraits of humans using both text prompts and image inputs. Additionally, Aurora can also edit ed images. While there are no tools to specify the range, intensity, or type of edits, s can add text prompts to describe what they want changed in an image. In an example shared by the company, Aurora could add a hat to an animated image of an elephant. This capability will be added to Grok in the future.

Currently, the safety parameters and privacy markers of the AI models are not known. However, based on the images shared by s during its brief access, Aurora is not barred from generating realistic images of public figures or copyrighted characters.

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