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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.
Today, a Hugging Face employee published data from 1 million Bluesky posts scraped from its API to the AI repository. He’s removed it and apologized, but 404 Media notes the set was “trending” all day.
Bluesky says it’s looking into ways to “specify consent (or not) for AI training.” but acknowledges that “It will be up to outside developers to respect these settings.”
I’m glad Apple Intelligence summaries exist. Because this is a beautiful mess.
And life-changing, just like Tim Cook said.
The AI-powered search engine will begin with showing labeled ads formatted as “sponsored follow-up questions” that will appear next to answers in the US.
TechCrunch reports:
“Perplexity’s embrace of ads stands in contrast to OpenAI’s decision not to launch its AI-powered search tool, ChatGPT Search, with ads. But rival Google has similarly piloted ads in its AI search experience, AI Overviews — recently bringing ads to mobile in the U.S. for certain queries”
Anthropic co-founder Darius Amodei said on Lex Fridman’s podcast yesterday that, “if you believe the straight-line extrapolation,” we’ll have artificial general intelligence “in 2026 or 2027.” He also indicates that’s a big if, listing reasons why (which don’t include that LLMs might not be the way to AGI).
Makes sense — after all, according to growth trends, I should have been the size of a dinosaur by age 10.
