Elon Musk's AI company xAI has released two new models of its Grok chatbot, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, with 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, but there appear to be few guardrails in place to prevent misuse.
xAI says the Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini are available in beta on X (access to Grok is currently limited to Premium and Premium Plus subscribers), and that both models will be available through its enterprise API for AI developers later this month.
“We're excited to release an early preview of Grok-2, a big leap forward from its predecessor, Grok-1.5, with cutting-edge capabilities in chat, coding, and reasoning,” xAI said in a statement, describing the chatbot as “more intuitive, easier to navigate, and more versatile” than its predecessor. Meanwhile, Grok-2 mini is Grok-2's “smaller but more capable sibling,” offering a “good balance between speed and answer quality,” xAI said.
These Grok-generated images do not bear any disclosure that they are AI-generated. The platform has consistently avoided media inquiries since Musk acquired it in 2022, but when we asked X if it plans to put limits on image generation, it said:
