xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as a new "Quality Mode" on grok.com/imagine and in Grok's iOS and Android apps, with API access coming soon. The model is designed to follow instructions with fine-grained accuracy, keep typography and layout clean in complex visuals, and stay consistent across multiple generations. In Arena leaderboards as of August 7, 2026, the faster "low" variant ranks second globally in both categories, scoring an Elo rating of 1,439 in the Image Edit Arena behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 at 1,463, and 1,320 in the Text-to-Image Arena, trailing GPT-Image-2 at 1,380. xAI Reve 2.1, Meta's Muse-Image, Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro, Google's Gemini, and ByteDance's SeedDream rank further down. The new model also beats the "Quality" variant of its predecessor by a wide margin. Imagine Image 2.0 includes editing features such as "Magic Wand" for modifying selected areas, a segmentation feature for precise regions, a background removal tool, Multi-Ref Editing to combine up to five input images, and "Smart Resize" for converting images to any aspect ratio. xAI is adding templates for photo editing, product photography, marketing materials, design tools, game assets, and streaming emojis, plus a feature that generates characters