X (Twitter)’s newly introduced image generator ‘Aurora’ disappeared inside a couple of hours of its launch. Nevertheless, CEO Elon Musk said that xAI developed this model in-house, and a few users praised it for showing superior performance than the present ‘Flux’ model.
TechCrunch reported on the seventh (local time) that xAI unveiled a brand new image creation AI, ‘Aurora’, through X, however it disappeared a couple of hours later.
In response to this, Nevertheless, this was restored to its original state as ‘Grock 2+ Flux (Beta)’ a couple of hours later.
Regarding this, CEO Musk told
Subsequently, it’s assumed that the service was temporarily suspended to switch some functions.
Particularly, Aurora is thought to have almost no limitations in image creation like existing flux models.
Before being removed, some users were also in a position to create content corresponding to copyrighted images of Mickey Mouse and the controversial ‘Donald Trump Spilling Blood’. Nevertheless, it is alleged that suggestive images corresponding to nudes are restricted.
Moreover, users overall gave Aurora generous evaluations. It produces photo-quality images and is usually considered to be an improvement over Flux. For instance, a photograph of CEO Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman boxing or a sitcom photo of Ray Romano and Adam Sandler were posted as examples.
Regarding this, Guillaume Verdon, founding father of Xtropic, expressed his admiration, saying, “I can’t imagine xAI is releasing one in every of its most eminent image models like this.”
In fact, in some images, defects corresponding to unnatural objects or absence of human fingers were also identified.
Meanwhile, X began making Grock available totally free to all users starting this weekend.
Previously, only users with a premium subscription of $8 per thirty days could use Groc, but now free users can send as much as 10 messages every two hours and create up to a few images per day.
Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com
