xAI launches Imagine Image 2.0 in Grok Quality Mode

xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as the new Quality Mode on Grok’s web-based Imagine service and its iOS and Android apps. The model is aimed at creative work that requires controlled layouts, legible typography and repeatable visual elements, rather than one-off image generation. API access is planned but is not yet available.

The company says Image 2.0 can follow detailed instructions, plan typography and layout for dense compositions, keep small text sharp, and preserve supplied elements across new generations and edits. Its editing toolkit lets users target a region with a magic wand or segmentation while leaving the rest of an image unchanged. It can also remove a background to create a transparent export and combine up to five reference images in a single generation, reducing the manual compositing needed for complex scenes. Smart Resize extends an image to a chosen frame, with ratios ranging from 1:2 and 9:16 through square, landscape and 2:1 formats.

xAI is also introducing ready-made templates for recurring workflows. The selection spans photo edits, product color changes, e-commerce shots, professional headshots, icons, character sprites, emojis and merchandise. Users provide the inputs while the template supplies the configured workflow. For video planning, the page demonstrates generating a character, locations and props separately while maintaining a shared visual style, allowing a recurring figure and its surroundings to be developed as one consistent world.

The company says Image 2.0 ranks second worldwide in both text-to-image generation and image editing. In the Arena results displayed on the page, grok-imagine-image-2 (low) scores 1320 for text-to-image, behind gpt-image-2 at 1380, and 1439 for editing, behind gpt-image-2 at 1463. The separately listed grok-imagine-image-quality entry scores 1228 and 1390 in those categories. xAI says its models appear under SpaceXAI on Arena.

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