Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, has added picture era capabilities to its API.
Just one mannequin is out there within the API in the meanwhile, “grok-2-image-1212.” Given a caption, the mannequin can generate as much as 10 photographs per request (restricted to five requests per second) in JPG format, priced at $0.07 per picture.
For comparability, AI startup Black Forest Labs, with which xAI partnered final yr to launch picture era on Musk’s social community X, expenses round $0.05 per picture. One other in style picture mannequin supplier, Ideogram, expenses $0.08 on the upper finish.
In its documentation, xAI notes that the API doesn’t help adjusting the standard, measurement, or fashion of photographs but, and that prompts in requests are topic to revision by a “chat mannequin.”
xAI, which launched its API in October 2024, seems to be on the hunt for significant sources of income because it ramps up coaching and improvement of flagship fashions like Grok 3. The corporate is reportedly assembly with traders a few potential $10 billion funding spherical that might convey its valuation to $75 billion.
Hinting at its different ambitions, xAI lately acquired a generative AI video startup and is within the technique of increasing the Memphis-based information middle it makes use of to coach and run its varied fashions.