xAI Ships Imagine Image 2.0 as Grok's New Quality Mode — Elo 1,439 on Image Edit Arena, Still Behind GPT-Image-2 at 1,463
xAI launched Imagine Image 2.0 on August 8 as the new Quality Mode at grok.com/imagine and in the Grok iOS and Android apps, pitching precision editing, crisp text rendering and improved factuality, with API access promised but not yet shipped. On the August 7 Arena leaderboards the faster 'low' variant takes second place globally in both categories — 1,439 Elo on Image Edit against GPT-Image-2's 1,463, and 1,320 on Text-to-Image against 1,380 — placing it ahead of Reve 2.1, Meta's Muse-Image, Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro, Google's Gemini and ByteDance's SeedDream. Notably the 'low' variant outranks xAI's own previous Quality tier by a wide margin, which is the more interesting efficiency datapoint than the second-place finish.
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