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Elon Musk’s AI firm xAI has launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini: two new fashions of its Grok chatbot that supply upgraded efficiency and new image-generation capabilities. Grok’s prompt-based picture maker is powered by Black Forest Lab’s Flux 1 AI mannequin, and permits customers to generate and publish pictures on to the X social platform — with seemingly few guardrails in place to stop abuse.
xAI says that Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini can be found in beta on X (the place Grok entry is at present restricted to Premium and Premium Plus subscribers) and that each fashions can be out there by means of the AI developer’s enterprise API later this month.
“We’re excited to launch an early preview of Grok-2, a major step ahead from our earlier mannequin Grok-1.5, that includes frontier capabilities in chat, coding, and reasoning,” xAI mentioned in its announcement, describing the chatbot as “extra intuitive, steerable, and versatile” mentioned its predecessor. In the meantime, Grok-2 mini is a “small however succesful sibling” of Grok-2 that “provides a steadiness between velocity and response high quality,” in response to xAI.
These Grok-generated pictures additionally don’t seem to sport any sort of disclosure to flag them as being AI generated. We have requested X if it is going to place restrictions on picture technology, though the platform has persistently shunned media inquiries since Musk bought it in 2022.
