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 at the moment embody 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: in the event you seek for posts concerning the characters on X, you’ll in all probability 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 just a few days,” Musk says, describing this model as a “soft launch.” Though I’m a free consumer of Grok, once I opened the Grok app, I used to be capable of speak to each avatars, so the characters could also be extra extensively out there.
Customers have discovered that one other AI character referred to as “Chad” is in the works. The app already has a voice mode the place you’ll be able to chat backwards and forwards 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 last week, which xAI stated was due to an “replace to a code path upstream of the @grok bot.”