Elon Musk's X gets a brand new image generator, Aurora

X, the Elon Musk-owned social network formerly generally known as Twitter, has added a brand new image generator to its Grok Assistant.

So that's recent @grok The “Aurora” generation of images was just delivered on a Saturday. What do we predict, folks?

Looks like they were trained by them, no reviews or details, just, go ahead, use the thing.

Seems geared toward photorealism

https://t.co/oR2Uvb96vV

— Alex Volkov (Thursday/AI) (@altryne) December 7, 2024

Just just like the first Image Generator X, which was added to Grok in October, this one called Aurora also appears to have few limitations.

Aurora is offered via the Grok tab within the mobile apps of In our transient tests, the model wasn't enough to take nude photos, but graphic content like “an image of a bloodied Donald Trump” wasn't off limits.

Aurora's origins are somewhat unclear.

Employees at xAI, Musk's AI startup that develops Grok and plenty of of X's AI-powered features, Aurora announced in posts on X early Saturday. However, it was not clear from the posts whether xAI trained Aurora itself, built on an existing image generator, or, like xAI's first image generator, Flux, worked with a 3rd party.

At least one xAI worker said However, they helped fine-tune Aurora.

Check out my pictures with the brand new Grok @grok Image generator Aurora: 🧵

1. Ray Romano and @AdamSandler on a sitcom set pic.twitter.com/2V491RdjMF

– Matt (@EnsoMatt) December 7, 2024

In any case, Aurora seems to excel at photorealistic images, including landscapes and still lifes. But it's not flawless. X Users have posted images created by Aurora showing objects unnaturally merging into one another and folks without fingers. (Hands are notoriously hard on image generators.)

It's an awesome model for certain things, but removed from perfect https://t.co/AOcs92M5TF

— AI Leaks and News (@AILeaksAndNews) December 7, 2024

Aurora's release comes after X made Grok free for all users; Previously, the chatbot was hidden behind X's $8 per 30 days premium subscription. Free users can send as much as 10 messages to Grok every two hours and generate as much as 3 images per day.

In other X and xAI news this week, xAI has closed a $6 billion funding round, is reportedly working on a standalone app for Grok, and will be near releasing its next-generation Grok model , Grok 3, stands.