xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 takes #4 on the Artificial Analysis Text to Image Leaderboard, the highest ranked model outside OpenAI, a 14 place climb over the previous generation, and lands on the Pareto frontier for quality vs price

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 is xAI's latest image model released in August. The model supports text to image, image editing, as well as multi-reference generations with up to five input images.

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 is a large step up on the previous generation grok-imagine-image-quality: it climbs from #18 to #4 in Text to Image and from #16 to #10 in Image Editing, closing the gap to the leaders on every Text to Image capability and use case we measure, with the largest gains in Knowledge, Text Rendering and Lighting.

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 is available through the xAI API as grok-imagine-image-2.0, in Grok Imagine on http://grok.com and the Grok apps, and through fal and Replicate.

Congratulations to @SpaceXAI and @elonmusk on the release!

See below for our analysis and example outputs of Grok Imagine Image 2.0 in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵