Earlier this week, xAI added what can only be described as an AI anime girlfriend named Ani to its Grok chatbot. Which is how ...

One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani." ...

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Days after introducing an AI ‘waifu’ companion for Grok, Elon Musk is now officially teasing a male version for the ladies.

AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and ...

On Wednesday, Elon Musk discussed a new male AI “companion” that his company xAI is developing, which will run on the company ...

Posts praising Hitler show the risks of accelerating the nascent technology with little stress testing and few guardrails ...

Elon Musk's Grok introduces 'Companions', featuring Ani, a goth anime-style avatar. This new feature is available to Super ...

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok introduces AI companions, customisable 3D characters, enhancing user engagement for Super AI ...

Through Grok For Government, xAI will bring frontier AI models like Grok 4 to national security, federal, state and local ...

AI released two AI "companions" on its Grok platform, a Japanese anime girl named "Ani" and an animated red panda called ...

Elon Musk's xAI is reportedly offering lucrative salaries to engineers for developing AI companions, despite recent ...