AI offers up to $440,000 for engineers building anime AI companions Grok's new avatars include flirty "Ani" and aggressive "Bad Rudi" personas Real-time avatar tech requires WebSocket expertise and lo ...

Elon Musk's AI-powered waifu chatbot, Ani, has sparked outrage from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation due to its explicit content.

AI signaled it was putting more resources behind its AI companions, posting a new position devoted to the product.