Grok’s AI Capabilities Expand on X Platform
New AI Image Generator and Chatbot Features
Since acquiring X, Elon Musk has been juicing up the platform with artificial intelligence (AI) using its Grok assistant offering. Over the past week, the platform gained a new AI image generator and expanded access to its AI chatbot.
Grok AI Chatbot Now Available to Free Users
The Grok AI chatbot on X has been limited to Premium users. However, as first spotted by The Verge, starting on Friday, free users began noticing that they had also been given access to the Grok 2 chatbot, with the ability to send up to 10 Grok messages every two hours.
New Image Generator Debuted
On Saturday, Grok also debuted a new image generator, dubbed Aurora, which produced extremely photorealistic results, as seen by user generations shared to X. Like the generations made by Black Forest’s Flux.1 on X, there seemed to be little safeguards to what could be generated on the platform.
Controversial Generations and Model Take-Down
TechCrunch had the chance to play with the model, and although nudes were blocked, copyrighted and graphic material was not, with the model generating an "image of a bloodied [Donald] Trump". After a few hours of being live, the generator was taken down from Grok.
Enhanced Image Generation Capabilities
However, the model isn’t gone altogether. On Monday, xAI announced in a release that it has enhanced Grok’s image generation abilities with a new model, Aurora, trained on billions of examples from the internet to excel at photorealistic renditions and prompt fidelity.
Aurora Model Details
"Aurora is an autoregressive mixture-of-experts network trained to predict the next token from interleaved text and image data," said the release. The new Aurora model will also be able to take images as inputs. However, xAI shares this ability will be rolled out to users on X "soon", with no definitive date. It seems as if the safeguards on this new model will remain loose, with the sample generations in the release including "Jackie Chan in Donald Trump’s hairstyle" and "Elon Musk as a Ghibli character."
Conclusion
Grok’s new capabilities will roll out to all users within a week. The enhanced image generation capabilities will provide users with even more possibilities for creative expression and communication.
FAQs
Q: What is Grok’s new chatbot feature?
A: Grok’s new chatbot feature, Grok 2, is now available to free users, allowing them to send up to 10 Grok messages every two hours.
Q: What is the new image generator, Aurora?
A: Aurora is a new image generator that produces extremely photorealistic results, trained on billions of examples from the internet to excel at photorealistic renditions and prompt fidelity.
Q: Are there safeguards on the new image generator?
A: It seems as if the safeguards on the new Aurora model will remain loose, with the ability to generate controversial and potentially offensive content.
