The crew at xAI, Musk’s AI gang cooking up Grok and a bunch of AI features for X, spilled the beans about Aurora on X over the weekend. “Still in beta, but it will improve fast.”
Aurora seems to be ace at churning out lifelike images of landscapes and still lifes, but hey, it’s not flawless. Now, even the freebies can ping Grok up to 10 times every two hours and whip up to three images a day.
In other news, guess what? xAI bagged a whopping $6 billion in funding, there’s gossip about a standalone Grok app in the works, and whispers are floating around that the next-gen Grok model – Grok 3 – might be on the verge of making its grand entrance.
But hey, heads up! It seems Aurora got yanked off stage according to the latest update.. Before this, the chatbot was exclusively for Premium subscribers dishing out $8 monthly. Nevertheless, at least one xAI staffer let slip that they helped fine-tune Aurora, and Musk dropped hints a while back about xAI cooking up its own “image generation system.”
“This is our internal image generation system,” Musk proudly proclaimed on X. Crafting realistic hands is quite the challenge for these image generators, apparently.
Hot off the press, X announced that Grok is now free for everyone following the Aurora bonanza né?. While we didn’t spot any nudity during our tests, brace yourselves because graphic content such as “an image of a bloodied [Donald] Trump” got the green light.
Now, the story behind Aurora is a tad murky. Some X users shared Aurora-made images where objects seemed oddly mashed together, and hey, some folks were minus a finger or two. But here’s the kicker – it’s still a mystery whether xAI birthed Aurora from scratch tweaked an existing image generator or partnered up with an outside player just like they did with their first one Flux né?. Alright folks listen up! X the social platform that’s Elon Musk’s baby (formerly known as Twitter) has rolled out a fresh image generator feature for its trusty assistant Grok. But hold on to your hats because guess what? Just moments after its big debut on Saturday, the darn thing mysteriously vanished for some users.
Similar to the original image generator that landed on Grok’s doorstep back in October, the newcomer – Aurora – is apparently as chill as a cucumber né?. Sitting pretty on the Grok tab within X’s mobile apps and web, Aurora can whip up images of public figures or even copyrighted characters like Mickey Mouse with zero issues né?
