xAI’s new Grok-2 chatbots bring AI image generation to X
by Jess Weatherbed from The Verge - All Posts on (#6PZ7X)
Image: xAI Elon Musk's AI company xAI has launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini: two new models of its Grok chatbot that offer upgraded performance and new image-generation capabilities. Grok's prompt-based image maker is powered by Black Forest Lab's Flux 1 AI model, and allows users to generate and publish images directly to the X social platform - with seemingly few guardrails in place to prevent abuse.
xAI says that Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini are available in beta on X (where Grok access is currently limited to Premium and Premium Plus subscribers) and that both models will be available through the AI developer's enterprise API later this month.
We are excited to release an early preview of Grok-2, a significant step forward from our previous model...