X’s new ‘Aurora’ image generator is gone.

The “Grok 2 + Aurora” option has vanished from Grok’s model selector menu only a day after it appeared, Engadget reports, replaced by “Grok 2 + FLUX beta” instead. The model still makes photorealistic images, but it was less willing to reproduce celebrities when I asked.

X owner Elon Musk wrote yesterday that the photorealistic and largely unrestricted model is a beta “internal image generator.”

Update: Added testing detail.