Elon Musk's Grok AI has recently introduced AI companions to the app. Along with Ani and Rudy, Musk introduced the latest ...

Packaged inside the Grok app, Ani is styled as a 22-year-old 'anime girlfriend' capable of initiating sexually explicit ...

When xAI launched Grok 4 last week, the company claimed the large language model outperformed several competitors on various benchmarks. However, the Grok ...

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Grok 4 by xAI was released on July 9, and it's surged ahead of competitors like DeepSeek and Claude at LMArena, a leaderboard ...

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

An extremely eventful week for Grok And X, streaming takes a bigger bite of TV time, luxury brands should remember high-end ...

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

A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media platform X is back with new AI-controlled chatbots for paid subscribers to ...

The news comes alongside the U.S. Department of Defense’s announcement of $200 million contracts awarded to xAI, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI for AI implementation.

Elon Musk's xAI is hiring engineers at up to $440K to develop anime-style AI avatars for Grok, some of which have sparked ...

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