Aurora (xAI)

xAI · 2024 · Weather/Science · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: xAI
C · CEO & Politics: Elon Musk — Right / Republican; largest individual donor of 2024 cycle; revived America PAC with $100M+ for GOP in 2026 midterms (America Party plan shelved)
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Part of SpaceX (Elon Musk, CEO); Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX President)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Weather/Science
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Proprietary
P · Pricing: Grok via X Premium+: starts $40/mo (web) + optional SuperGrok tiers
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: xAI's image generation model, code-named Aurora (Dec 2024): an autoregressive mixture-of-experts network trained to predict the next token from interleaved text and image data; strong at photorealistic rendering and following text instructions, and can edit user-provided images. Launched in Grok on X.
S · Stock / Status: Public via SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX, IPO Jun 12, 2026); $145 (SPCX, Sep 28, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: API only
X · X Handle: @SpaceXSI
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Proprietary Weather/Science from xAI, released 2024.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗

“Aurora (xAI).” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/aurora-xai.html