Update, December 9, 2024, 5:45PM ET: X today formally announced its Aurora image generator. "Grok's new capabilities are now available on the X platform in select countries and will roll out to ...

X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, quietly added a new image generator to its Grok assistant this past Saturday.

The details of this experiment, called the Aurora Generator Test, were inadvertently disclosed by Dept. of Homeland Security officials at a conference in Atlanta.

Elon Musk has suggested on X that the Aurora name will be deleted altogether, with the new image creating technology to simply be integrated within Grok – X’s AI chatbot.

X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant called Aurora.

Grok's new AI image generator, Aurora, was made available on X but was only short-lived as it was taken down.

For a few hours on Saturday, some users of Elon Musk's X reported having access to Aurora, a new, more photorealistic image generator powered by Musk's artificial intelligence model, Grok.

The Aurora Generator Test was what convinced several skeptical officials that a cyberattack—the simple insertion of malware—could not only manipulate a computer but destroy an object that the ...