AI recently introduced two AI "companions" to the iOS version of its Grok app. Ani is one of the anime-inspired characters ...

Pakistan, July 15 -- WASHINGTON - Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has secured a $200 million contract from the US Department of Defense, despite recent backlash over its chatbot Grok. The deal aims to ...

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

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

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

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

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.

On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it had signed similar agreements, also with ceilings of $200 million, with industry leaders including Google, Anthropic, and ...