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

Ani, an anime avatar wearing a tight black dress, was launched the same day the tech billionaire was awarded a $200 million Department of Defense contract.

AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and “completely irresponsible” safety culture at xAI, the billion-dollar AI startup owned by Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is integrating AI across his companies and blurring the lines between them.

An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks first.

The money behind Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar empire is increasingly flowing in one direction: toward artificial intelligence.

Musk's Grok AI just dropped a new Companion modes, featuring a flirty anime chatbot called Ani, and it has got the internet buzzing.

Elon Musk's xAI is reportedly offering lucrative salaries to engineers for developing AI companions, despite recent controversy over its Grok chatbot