Grok Imagine High Quality (SOTA)

• 🆕 xAI's quality-focused text-to-image and editing model, released May 2026.
• 🎯 Quality Mode emphasizes stronger realism and creative control.
• 🔧 Supports natural-language editing and multi-image composition (up to 3 sources).
• 💬 Handles both text-to-image generation and image editing.
• 🌐 Accessed via the grok-imagine-image-quality id in the Imagine API.
• 📏 Replaces the earlier "-pro" image endpoint; developers should migrate.
• 🏢 Aimed at enterprise developers and teams.

xAI

xAI is an American artificial intelligence company and wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX. The company develops AI systems under the Grok brand, spanning language models, image generation, and video synthesis. xAI has quickly established itself as a multimodal…

Grok Imagine High Quality is xAI's higher-fidelity image generation and editing model, accessed through the model identifier grok-imagine-image-quality in the company's Imagine API. Announced as part of xAI's Quality Mode for image generation and editing, it targets enterprise developers and teams who need stronger realism and more creative control than the standard pipeline. The model handles both text-to-image generation and natural-language editing, and supports multi-image editing of up to three source images in a single request for combining subjects, transferring styles, or composing scenes.

Compared with its same-family predecessor Grok Imagine, xAI positions this model as the higher-fidelity option within its Quality Mode tier. xAI also notes it replaces the earlier "-pro" image endpoint, recommending developers migrate from those requests promptly.

The editing companion Grok Imagine High Quality extends the same quality tier to inpainting-style workflows, while xAI's broader Imagine lineup spans text, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation. Because xAI has not published a detailed model card with independently verified benchmark figures for this release, the strongest grounded claims here are feature-level: text-to-image generation, natural-language editing, multi-image composition, and the Quality Mode positioning xAI itself describes.