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

During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, a former Pentagon employee says.

It’s unclear whether the new partnership will allow xAI to use vehicle data to train its large language models.

One of Tech billionaire Elon Musk s latest xAI chatbot characters includes a female anime-themed character named Ani that can reportedly flirt with and strip for users, raising concerns about AI s

Elon Musk on Wednesday teased a forthcoming male Grok companion from xAI, which already offers an anime waifu named Ani and a red panda named Rudi.

Elon Musk has named xAI's new AI companion "Ani," triggering a new meme coin frenzy around the latest update of Grok, Grok 4.

Days after introducing an AI ‘waifu’ companion for Grok, Elon Musk is now officially teasing a male version for the ladies. So far we can tell it is broody and dark-haired, and according to Musk, “his personality is inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades .”