Elon Musk-owned X has officially announced its Aurora image generator. “Grok’s new capabilities are now available on the X platform in select countries and will roll out to all users within a week,” the company said in a blog post.

The platform added the new image generator to its Grok assistant last week but it was removed soon after.

Aurora has been developed by Musk’s AI company, xAI, and trained on billions of examples from the Internet. In a blog post, xAI said that Aurora “excels at photorealistic rendering” and following text instructions, and can “take inspiration from or directly edit user-provided images”.

Aurora will be available on X through Grok in select countries and support for editing existing images will come at a later date.

“Grok can now generate high-quality images across several domains where other image generation models often struggle,” xAI wrote. “It can render precise visual details of real-world entities, text, logos, and can create realistic portraits of humans.”

Aurora is an updated version of the first image generation model that xAI introduced in October. A few people who have tried the AI offering have said there are fewer restrictions and can generate images with almost any prompt, including those of famous personalities and copyrighted characters. Images come with a watermark in the bottom-right corner to ensure a certain degree of transparency.

Musk has said on X that “Aurora is still in beta and will improve very fast”. Free X users are limited to three image generations daily, while X Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access. TechCrunch has reported that xAI is also developing a stand-alone Grok app, probably powered by Grok 3, following the company’s successful $6 billion funding round.