Grok Aurora
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- 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
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Images
- H · Deployment
- Cloud
- I · Inputs
- Text→Image
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Part of SpaceX (Elon Musk, CEO); Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX President)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Image Generation
- 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 Aurora (December 9, 2024), the autoregressive mixture-of-experts image model behind Grok's image generation on X, trained to predict the next token from billions of interleaved text and image examples from the internet; it excels at photorealistic rendering and precise instruction following and can take inspiration from or edit user-provided images. It rolled out on X in select countries first, and xAI now points users to its newer Grok Imagine models.
- 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 Image Generation from xAI, released 2024.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“Grok Aurora.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/grok-aurora.html
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