{"id":16085,"date":"2024-08-14T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/xai-launches-grok-2-with-image-generation-capabilities\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:20:45","slug":"xai-launches-grok-2-with-image-generation-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/xai-launches-grok-2-with-image-generation-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"xAI Launches Grok-2 with Image Generation Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s company xAI has launched the beta version of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini. The neural network can generate images in X and is said to have &#8220;advanced capabilities in chat, programming, and reasoning.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2QIqApWk0Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/2QIqApWk0Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 xAI (@xai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xai\/status\/1823597788573098215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The advanced Grok-2 model and its lighter version are available to Premium and Premium+ users on the X platform. Developer access will also be provided through a corporate <span data-descr=\"Application Programming Interface \u2014 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0444\u0435\u0439\u0441 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044f \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439\" class=\"old_tooltip\">API <\/span> by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Grok-2 outperformed Claude and GPT-4 in tests of the popular LMSYS benchmark, trailing only GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfBYUGjQHHpsfQrGxwGk36zvhZWeZcI2bMb_ad-uzgPnEi1FzdmesRxtRHKkAovgcjwGj0wzi6LCHDI34zsit9A6fzJfMWVsoG4CAaRKWBAaO-oAhl7OIbSsr6t99S2UCOzLoIEmBhsq-2DL_0MthJkqfM?key=-xA-Y3lwjH7VtSkylcYoOw\" alt=\"xAI \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0430 Grok-2 \u0441 \u0433\u0435\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043c \u0438\u0437\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Comparison of Grok-2 with competitors. Data: xAI.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Grok-2 mini is our small yet functional model that offers a balance between speed and response quality,&#8221; the company blog states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a series of academic tests, which include reasoning, reading comprehension, mathematics, natural sciences, and programming, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini demonstrated &#8220;significant improvements&#8221; over the previous model.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeec9rImp6T52h44rnsI0XRpfYL3RtXHmLoCXbi3Bvjdr22i2wjzPEYmfKQ82J-d8unUXa7dcEN8nnimLJoxt0octZV_LL4spso8FZLq-oUUx7FpEuAFpqAs07u1tn0B4bsZCoVKueS9bMzMXB7az5wpLTb?key=-xA-Y3lwjH7VtSkylcYoOw\" alt=\"xAI \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0430 Grok-2 \u0441 \u0433\u0435\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043c \u0438\u0437\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Comparison of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini with Grok-1.5 and competitors. Data: xAI.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>X users have shared images generated by the second version of Grok. It appears the AI does not have politically related restrictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Grok 2.0 \u2026. Ohh boyyyy ??? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TjzB7WMhVp\">pic.twitter.com\/TjzB7WMhVp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benjamin De Kraker ?\u200d\u2620\ufe0f (@BenjaminDEKR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminDEKR\/status\/1823582769521283293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In one example, Grok 2.0 generated an image based on a request that ChatGPT deemed unacceptable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Grok 2.0 will do political illustrations and real people, while ChatGPT refuses.<\/p>\n<p>This instantly makes Grok 10x more fun\u2026\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yDBJO0jWba\">pic.twitter.com\/yDBJO0jWba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benjamin De Kraker ?\u200d\u2620\ufe0f (@BenjaminDEKR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminDEKR\/status\/1823576559019491423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To enable image generation, xAI collaborates with Black Forest Labs, &#8220;conducting experiments with their FLUX.1 model.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>xAI plans to integrate Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini into X&#8217;s AI features such as an enhanced search system and post analytics, and to release a preliminary version of multimodal understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, xAI <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/xai-unveils-updated-chatbot-grok-1-5\">announced<\/a> an updated version of the large language model Grok-1.5.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/xai-unveils-first-multimodal-version-of-grok-1-5v\">introduced<\/a> a new AI model capable of processing requests in various formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s company xAI has launched the beta version of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini. The neural network can generate images in X and is said to have &#8220;advanced capabilities in chat, programming, and reasoning.&#8221;\u00a0 https:\/\/t.co\/2QIqApWk0Y \u2014 xAI (@xai) August 14, 2024 The advanced Grok-2 model and its lighter version are available to Premium and Premium+ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1217,1493],"class_list":["post-16085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-elon-musk","tag-explainable-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"107","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}