{"id":39466,"date":"2025-07-15T11:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=39466"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:39:01","slug":"%e9%a9%ac%e6%96%af%e5%85%8b%e5%ae%a3%e5%b8%83-grok-%e4%b8%8a%e7%ba%bf%e5%8a%a8%e6%bc%ab-ai-%e4%bc%b4%e4%be%a3%e5%8a%9f%e8%83%bd%ef%bc%8c%e9%83%a8%e5%88%86%e5%85%8d%e8%b4%b9%e7%94%a8%e6%88%b7%e4%ba%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/39466.html","title":{"rendered":"Musk Announces Grok's Anime AI Companion Feature, Some Free Users Can Also Try It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2012 - Musk announced on Monday, local time, that the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/grok\" title=\"[See articles with [Grok] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Grok<\/a> Paid subscribers can now try a new version of the AI chatbot \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%99%9a%e6%8b%9f%e4%bc%99%e4%bc%b4\" title=\"[Sees articles with [virtual partner] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >virtual partner<\/a>The \"Companions\" feature, which some free users claim to have access to, is also available.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39467\" title=\"4ec9f53dj00szf8g9008dd000v900hkp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4ec9f53dj00szf8g9008dd000v900hkp.jpg\" alt=\"4ec9f53dj00szf8g9008dd000v900hkp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grok's first avatars include Ani, an anime character, and Rudy, a cartoon panda who also supports \"Bad Rudy\" mode. According to TestingCatalog, Ani also has a \"NSFW mode\" where the character will be dressed in underwear, which is more in line with the preferences of secondary gamers and is a step ahead of the rest of the AI industry.<\/p>\n<p>1AI noted that Musk called this a \"soft launch\" because currently users need to go into the settings interface to manually turn on the AI companion feature, \"we will simplify the process of turning it on in a few days\".<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the announced characters, users have discovered that another character named \"Chad\" is in development, and Grok's existing voice chat mode now supports the NSFW content switch, allowing users to talk to Grok, who previously had no physical presence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Paid subscribers to Grok can now try out a new version of the AI chatbot's \"Companions\" feature, Musk announced on Monday, but some free subscribers say they can access the feature as well. Grok's first avatars include Ani, an anime character, and Rudy, a cartoon panda who also supports \"Bad Rudy\" mode. According to TestingCatalog, Ani also has a \"NSFW mode,\" in which the character is dressed in lingerie, which is more in line with the preferences of second-generation gamers, and is a step ahead of the rest of the AI industry. 1AI notes that Musk is calling this a \"soft release,\" as users currently have to go into the settings interface to manually turn it on.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[364,7192],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-39466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-grok","tag-7192"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39466"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=39466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}