2025-07-17T17:54:01z
- Another AI companion has come to Elon Musk's Grok chatbot.
- The companion is inspired by “Twilight” and “50 Shades of Grey,” Musk said.
- Glock already has two friends. It's an anime girl named Anni and a vulgar red panda named Rudy.
Elon Musk says his Grok Chatbot has won male companions – and his company has turned to two popular romance novels for inspiration.
Musk on Wednesday teased his upcoming male Groke companions and asked users what he thought about what he should be named.
“His personality is inspired by Edward Cullen of Twilight and Christian Gray of 50 shades,” Musk wrote.
When X users commented that the character should be inspired by Darcy, the character of Jane Austen's pride and prejudice, Musk replied, “Of course, he has another character inspired by Darcy.”
Grok already has it Two have been released AI companion: Frivolous female anime character named Annie And then there's a vulgar red panda named Rudy.
Xai representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.
Grok has recently been criticized for a string Anti-Semitism Postsincluding those that call themselves “Mechahitler,” a video game version of Hitler. Zai later apologized for the chatbot.”Fearful behaviour. ”
“Deprecated code that made @Grok more susceptible to existing user posts, including when such posts included extremist views,” Xai said.
Xai is not the only company experimenting with offering a variety of chatbot personas. There is Character.ai. It states that users can choose from millions of AI characters as conversation partners. Meta began offering chatbot characters that featured similarities between celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Kendall Jenner, and Charli D'Amelio, but discarded them less than a year later.
There will be time to see if Grok's companions will encounter similar fates.
