Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has added image generation capabilities to its API.
Only one model is available in the API at the moment, “grok-2-image-1212.” Given a caption, the model can generate up to 10 images per request (limited to 5 requests per second) in JPG format, priced at $0.07 per image.
For comparison, AI startup Black Forest Labs, with which xAI partnered last year to launch image generation on Musk’s social network X, charges around $0.05 per image. Another popular image model provider, Ideogram, charges $0.08 on the higher end.
In its documentation, xAI notes that the API doesn’t support adjusting the quality, size, or style of images yet, and that prompts in requests are subject to revision by a “chat model.”
xAI, which…