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

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is looking for software engineers who can help build interactive AI avatars that resemble anime characters, and it's willing to pay big money for it.

AI released two AI "companions" on its Grok platform, a Japanese anime girl named "Ani" and an animated red panda called "Rudi." ...