Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence (AI) firm xAI has launched a picture era mannequin this week, coming simply because the Sam Altman-run competitor OpenAI has debuted its highly-anticipated video era mannequin, dubbed Sora.
On Monday, xAI introduced the information in a weblog put up on its web site, highlighting that X customers have already got entry to the device in choose nations, whereas it plans to roll the function out to all customers inside per week. The mannequin can obtain inputs within the type of textual content or different photos, and it says it’s capable of generate high-quality photos in lots of situations the place different fashions have a tough time producing.
The firm writes the next within the net put up:
We’ve enhanced Grok’s picture era talents with a brand new mannequin, code-named Aurora. Aurora is an autoregressive mixture-of-experts community educated to foretell the following token from interleaved textual content and picture information. We educated the mannequin on billions of examples from the web, giving it a deep understanding of the world. As a outcome, it excels at photorealistic rendering and exactly following textual content directions. Beyond textual content, the mannequin additionally has native assist for multimodal enter, permitting it to take inspiration from or straight edit user-provided photos.
Despite being launched as “Aurora,” Musk responded to the information saying that xAI is planning to eliminate the title, as an alternative preferring to simply use the title Grok that has been used to consult with its text-only mannequin.
“Note: we’re deleting the title of the interior @xAI picture era system (Aurora),” Musk wrote in a put up on X. “Just consider Grok as doing something.”
You can see a couple of examples of the Grok picture era’s footage under.
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Credit: xAI
Credit: xAI
Credit: xAI
Credit: xAI
Credit: xAI
Grok was initially launched by xAI final November, supplied as a profit to X Premium Plus customers.
The firm later open-sourced the mannequin, coming alongside Musk’s criticisms of OpenAI for abandoning its authentic non-profit mission and never open-sourcing its personal mannequin, ChatGPT. In April, xAI additionally launched Grok 1.5V as its first mannequin with visible processing energy.
Currently, xAI is at present upgrading a newly constructed supercomputing cluster in Memphis, Tennessee, dubbed Colossus, the place the corporate finally plans to deal with 200,000 Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs. Constructed in simply 122 days and fee in July, the positioning is at present house to 100,000 of the GPUs, and Musk mentioned final week that the cluster would finally embrace as many as a million of them.
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