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 obtainable presently embody Ani, an anime avatar, and Rudy, a cartoony pink panda.
Ani additionally has what TestingCatalog describes as an “NSFW” mode the place the character wears lingerie. (And only a warning: for those who 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’ll make this simpler to activate in a number of days,” Musk says, describing this model as a “soft launch.” Though I’m a free person of Grok, after 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 obtainable.
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 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 last week, which xAI mentioned was due to an “replace to a code path upstream of the @grok bot.”