This week is another artificial intelligence model, but slightly different as this is an AI image model created by the development team behind the X-based chatbot “Grok” (currently free).

Regardless of what you think about X, it is clear that this platform is shifting away from social media sites and toward providing additional AI features.

By tying these features to the social media platform, there is an argument that each new shift brings an influx of users for testing and additional data to train the next generation of models.

This is likely the case with the release of the new Grok Image Generation, codenamed Aurora, which made a brief appearance over the weekend but now appears to have replaced Flux as Grok's full image generator.

According to the xAI blog, the team explained that they have “enhanced Grok's image generation capabilities with a new model codenamed Aurora.”

“Aurora is an autoregressive mixed expert network trained to predict the next token from interleaved text and image data. We have trained this model on billions of examples from the Internet to give us a deep understanding of the world”

This basically means that it is particularly good at following photorealistic images and prompts. It can also generate striking text on images and draw inspiration from user-uploaded images.

Perhaps not surprisingly, one of the tests of image generation is the “Pepe the Frog meme,” which has become something of an icon for the alt-right.

Currently, Grok's latest model is available for X in “some countries,” but will be rolled out to all users “within a week.” If you see Grok + Flux in the model selection dropdown, you do not yet have access.

If you do have access, please refer to this guide. This guide assumes you have the necessary X Premium subscription to use Aurora.