This Tiny Startup Is Helping Musk’s Grok With Image Generation
Elon Musk’s AI startup has partnered with a company called Black Forest Labs.
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If you’ve seen a picture of Elmo, Mickey Mouse or Pikachu wielding a gun online recently, chances are good it was made with Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, with help from a tiny startup called Black Forest Labs.
The images started coming fast and furious on Musk’s social network X last week — ranging from the clearly parodic to genuinely disturbing. The surge began shortly after xAI said in a blog post that it was “experimenting” with image generation software called Flux.1.