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

Usually, when you try to mess with an AI chatbot, you have to be pretty clever to get past its guardrails. But Bad Rudy ...

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has sparked controversy with the launch of two new "companion" chatbots, Ani and Bad Rudy ...

The latest version of Grok for iOS (version 1.1.18) comes with two companions — an anime girl called Ani and a red panda ...

One of the new AI ‘companions’ launched by Elon Musk’s xAI, the company that owns the social media platform X (formerly ...

The company is hiring for the role of "Fullstack Engineer - Waifus," or, creating AI-powered anime girls for people to fall ...

On July 14, Musk announced a major update to X’s SuperGrok AI, introducing a lineup of virtual companions including Ani, a cutesy anime girl, Rudy the panda, and a brutally unfiltered variant called ...

Even when the user mentioned specific political figures and recent attacks, the AI continued to make dangerous and hateful ...

Musk’s new AI companions, Ani and Bad Rudi, seem to be cut from a different cloth than last week’s neo-Nazi version of Grok.

Companions in Grok is currently available only to the SuperGrok Heavy subscribers who pay $300 (roughly Rs. 25,700) a month.

A new Grok feature touches on the App Store’s rules for sexual content, which is something that Apple has shown it doesn’t mess around with.