Elon Musk moves xAI, Grok
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One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani."
Elon Musk on Wednesday teased a forthcoming male Grok companion from xAI, which already offers an anime waifu named Ani and a red panda named Rudi.
Economist Paul Krugman believes that Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot became “MechaHitler” because the latter tried to make the AI less “politically correct.” What Happened: On Thursday, Krugman weighed in on the recent controversy in his Substack newsletter,
The Department of Defense is set to begin using Musk's controversial chatbot Grok, according to a Monday announcement.
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This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”
An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks first.
The announcement of the $200 million contract to xAI comes less than a week after Grok came under fire for sharing antisemitic comments.
Companions in Grok is currently available only to the SuperGrok Heavy subscribers who pay $300 (roughly Rs. 25,700) a month.
Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.