Individuals who pay for entry to SuperGrok can now strive the AI chatbot’s new “Companions” avatars, xAI proprietor Elon Musk introduced Monday morning. The companions out there presently embrace Ani, an anime avatar, and Rudy, a cartoony purple panda.
Ani additionally has what TestingCatalog describes as an “NSFW” mode the place the character wears lingerie. (And only a warning: when you seek for posts concerning the characters on X, you’ll most likely come throughout NSFW movies.)
Proper now, customers have to enter settings to activate the companions, however “we are going to make this simpler to activate in a number of days,” Musk says, describing this model as a “mushy launch.” Despite the fact that I’m a free consumer of Grok, once I opened the Grok app, I used to be in a position to speak to each avatars, so the characters could also be extra broadly out there.
Customers have discovered that one other AI character known as “Chad” is within the works. The app already has a voice mode the place you may chat forwards and backwards with a faceless model of Grok, and that has an NSFW toggle.
The addition of the animated characters follows Grok posting antisemitism and Hitler reward final week, which xAI mentioned was on account of an “replace to a code path upstream of the @grok bot.”
