Social media platform X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching a new photo editor with the ability to modify images through natural language posts. Both features are powered by xAI\u2019s Grok models. The company is pushing to make the in-app experience better for users with these updates. <\/p>\n
Late Tuesday, X\u2019s head of product Nikita Bier announced<\/a> that automatic translation is rolling out worldwide. You can tap on the gear icon on a translated post and toggle off automatic translation for that particular language.<\/p>\n We’re rolling out auto-translate worldwide to give posts in any language global reach on X.<\/p>\n The translations are powered by Grok and have improved substantially over the last couple months.<\/p>\n If you prefer to read in the original language, you can always turn off auto-translate\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Other social networks have also tried this playbook to make posts reach a larger global audience. Reddit has been experimenting with<\/a> machine translation<\/a> for the last few years<\/a>.<\/p>\n The social platform is also rolling out a new image editor to its iOS app<\/a>. The update includes features like drawing and text tools. Plus, there is a blur tool that lets you hide certain details, such as faces or sensitive information, such as credit card or Social Security numbers, from an image.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, the company is also enabling users to ask Grok to edit an image with a natural language prompt. For instance, you can ask \u201cdisplay this photo as a painting in a museum,\u201d and Grok will generate that picture for you. The company said that it plans to bring these updates to the Android app soon.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Elon Musk was heavily criticized by authorities around the world<\/a> for allowing users to edit someone else\u2019s images into a sexualized version without their consent. The company then restricted the image generation feature to only paying users<\/a>. It is not clear if X\u2019s new AI-powered image editing feature will be limited to paid users.<\/p>\n Multiple companies, such as Google<\/a> and Adobe<\/a>, have introduced AI-powered features that let users describe image edits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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