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

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

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

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

Elon Musk unveils new AI ‘companion’ inspired by 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight - The tech billionaire’s artificial intelligence offshoot xAI debuted the new features, allow users to interact with animated characters,

Usually, when you try to mess with an AI chatbot, you have to be pretty clever to get past its guardrails. But Bad Rudy basically has no guardrails, which is its whole point. Getting Bad Rudy to suggest that you burn a school is as easy as getting Ani to fall in love with you.