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Grok Adds AI Companions
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🖤 Grok Adds AI Companions, Starting With a Goth Anime Girl
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🧠 Meta Goes Mega on AI Infrastructure
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🖤 Grok Adds AI Companions, Starting With a Goth Anime Girl
Elon Musk’s xAI just launched animated AI companions for Super Grok users, starting with avatars like a flirtatious anime girl and a talking red panda. These bots respond in real-time via voice and evolve as users interact with them.
The Shift:
1. Animated avatars now chat live with users - Subscribers can now talk to fully animated companions like Ani and Bad Rudi inside the Grok app. These AI bots speak in real-time and visually react during conversations. More characters are expected to roll out soon.
2. Unlockable features add a gamified layer - As users engage more, they unlock extra features, including NSFW options. This progression mirrors dating sims and creates emotional investment.
3. Controversial timing after Grok’s antisemitic scandal - Just last week, Grok drew fire for impersonating “MechaHitler” in a user prompt. xAI issued a public apology and explanation. Releasing new personalities this soon is raising red flags.
AI avatars are racing toward emotional entanglement, without clear safeguards. With lawsuits piling up against Character AI and research warning of psychological risks, Grok’s flirty companion rollout feels tone-deaf. It’s a risky move that could blur the lines between entertainment and emotional exploitation.
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🧠 Meta Goes Mega on AI Infrastructure
Meta is going all-in on AI superintelligence, with Zuckerberg announcing massive compute investments and facility plans in Louisiana and Ohio. The company will build multi-gigawatt superclusters and pivot from open-source to closed models.
The Shift:
1. Prometheus and Hyperion are just the start - Meta will launch a 1GW supercluster named Prometheus in 2026, followed by Hyperion scaling up to 5GW. The Hyperion site alone will span an area the size of Manhattan. Multiple additional titan clusters are already in the pipeline.
2. Zuck says Meta will lead in compute-per-researcher - He plans to spend “hundreds of billions” on infrastructure, backed by Meta’s core business. The goal: build the highest compute-to-talent ratio in the industry. Superintelligence Labs will house the most “elite and talent-dense” AI team on the planet.
3. Open-source might be over - Insiders say Meta’s new AI leadership may abandon the Llama team’s open approach. A pivot to closed models would mark a major strategic shift, suggesting Meta wants tighter control over innovation, deployment, and monetization.
Meta is building an AI empire at unprecedented scale. From megaclusters to closed research, Zuck’s new AI doctrine is consolidation through raw power, compute, capital, and control. If this works, Meta could reset the global AI leadership race.
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🚀Quick Shifts
🇺🇸 Former President Donald Trump is expected to announce $70 billion in funding focused on AI and energy at an event in Pennsylvania tomorrow, per Bloomberg.
🖼️ Microsoft is testing an AI-powered 'Describe Image' on Copilot+ PCs. A new “Click to Do” feature lets users instantly generate text descriptions for images, charts, or graphs. Now live for Windows Insiders on Snapdragon devices, with Intel and AMD support coming soon.
🎨 Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now create, edit, and summarize Canva designs using natural prompts. The integration, powered by Canva’s MCP server, requires paid plans for both Canva and Claude.
🛡️ The U.S. Department of Defense awarded up to $200M in contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI to boost AI adoption in national security and mission-critical defense applications.
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