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 publish on its web site, highlighting that X customers have already got entry to the device in choose international locations, whereas it plans to roll the characteristic 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 corporate writes the next within the internet publish:
We’ve enhanced Grok’s picture era skills with a brand new mannequin, code-named Aurora. Aurora is an autoregressive mixture-of-experts community skilled to foretell the subsequent token from interleaved textual content and picture knowledge. We skilled the mannequin on billions of examples from the web, giving it a deep understanding of the world. In consequence, it excels at photorealistic rendering and exactly following textual content directions. Past textual content, the mannequin additionally has native help for multimodal enter, permitting it to take inspiration from or straight edit user-provided photos.
Regardless of being launched as “Aurora,” Musk responded to the information saying that xAI is planning to eliminate the title, as a substitute preferring to only use the title Grok that has been used to consult with its text-only mannequin.
“Notice: we’re deleting the title of the inner @xAI picture era system (Aurora),” Musk wrote in a publish on X. “Simply consider Grok as doing something.”
You possibly can see a couple of examples of the Grok picture era’s photos beneath.
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Grok was initially launched by xAI final November, provided as a profit to X Premium Plus customers.
The corporate later open-sourced the mannequin, coming alongside Musk’s criticisms of OpenAI for abandoning its unique 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.
At the moment, xAI is presently upgrading a newly constructed supercomputing cluster in Memphis, Tennessee, dubbed Colossus, the place the corporate finally plans to accommodate 200,000 Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs. Constructed in simply 122 days and fee in July, the positioning is presently house to 100,000 of the GPUs, and Musk mentioned final week that the cluster would finally embody as many as a million of them.
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