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X, the Elon Musk-owned social media network formerly known as Twitter, quietly added a new image generator to its Grok assistant last Saturday. Then she removed it. Now, it’s being brought back – officially advertisement He – she.
The image generator, called Aurora, was developed by Musk’s xAI company and trained on billions of examples from the Internet. In a blog post, xAI said Aurora “excels at photorealistic rendering” and following text instructions, and can “take inspiration from or edit directly from user-supplied images.”
Aurora is now available on X through Grok in select countries and will be rolled out to all users within a week, xAI said. Support for editing existing photos will come later.
“Grok can now generate high-quality images across many domains where other image generation models often struggle,” xAI wrote. “It can provide accurate visual details of real-world entities, text, and logos, and can create realistic images of humans.”
When TechCrunch tested Aurora last weekend, it seemed to have some limitations, just like the first X image generator added to Grok in October. Accessible through the Grok tab on the X’s mobile and web apps, Aurora can create images of generic and copyrighted characters, like Mickey Mouse, without complaint.
The model stopped for nudes in our short tests. But graphic content was not prohibited.
However, Aurora was not without flaws. On Saturday, X users posted images generated by Aurora showing objects blending together unnaturally and people without fingers. (Hands are known to be very difficult for image generators.)
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