X AI assistant Grok can now generate high-quality photorealistic images with its new capability brought by the Aurora tool.
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by X (formerly Twitter), is now equipped with a new autoregressive image generation model Aurora, available on the X social media platform in select countries with a planned rollout to all users within a week.
The new feature, which is part of the Grok AI tab found at the bottom of the X app, allows users to create visuals from text prompts, experimenting with generating images alongside text-based interactions for more dynamic communication. Besides the text, Aurora also supports multimodal input, so that it can take inspiration from or directly edit images provided by users. The feature provides creative flexibility for both casual and professional users, enhancing the chatbot’s usability.
One difference between Aurora and other image generators available on the market, as noted by users, is that the tool doesn’t have a lot of guardrails against using copyright content or real people images as prompts in the generation process.
The update is part of X’s broader effort to expand AI-driven features on the platform. It started with Grok itself which officially launched in November 2023. The assistant integrates with the X platform to provide conversational and task-oriented AI features, aligning with X’s platform-specific data and functionality.
Besides the generally available data on the web, Grok can leverage information from X posts, so its responses may be community-specific. Furthermore, Grok is quite helpful in helping people navigate the X platform. It suggests up-to-the-minute prompts based on trending topics on the platform and summarises the latest news based on X posts. The X-affiliated chatbot is also advertised as having a sense of humour which it uses in responses.
The Grok developer is the xAI startup founded by X’s current owner, US billionaire and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. This year, it raised $6 billion in the Series B funding round.
