Aurora (text-to-image model)

Aurora is a text-to-image model developed by xAI. As with other text-to-image models, Aurora generates images from natural language descriptions, called prompts.[1] Aurora is used to generate images on Grok.

Aurora
Developer(s)xAI
Initial releaseDecember 9, 2024; 3 days ago (2024-12-09)
TypeText-to-image model
LicenseProprietary

History and background

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On August 14, 2024, Grok received image generation capability using Flux by Black Forest Labs. Elon Musk said that the use of Flux was temporary, as xAI was developing its own image generation system, but that it was still a few months away.[2]

On December 7, 2024, Aurora was enabled on Grok.[3] It was subsequently disabled a few hours later.[4]

On December 9, 2024 Aurora was officially announced and released.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Davis, Wes (December 7, 2024). "X gives Grok a new photorealistic AI image generator". The Verge. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  2. ^ Musk, Elon (August 15, 2024). "We have our own image generation system under development, but it's a few months away, so this seemed like a good intermediate step for people to have some fun". X. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  3. ^ Wiggers, Kyle (December 7, 2024). "Elon Musk's X gains a new image generator, Aurora". TechCrunch. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  4. ^ Tangalakis-Lippert, Katherine (December 8, 2024). "We just got a glimpse of Grok's new nearly photorealistic image generator". Business Insider. Retrieved December 8, 2024.
  5. ^ "Grok Image Generation Release". x.ai. Retrieved December 9, 2024.