People who pay for access to SuperGrok can now try the AI chatbot’s new “Companions” avatars, xAI owner Elon Musk announced Monday morning. The companions available currently include Ani, an anime avatar, and Rudy, a cartoony red panda.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI said its models are now available to federal agencies. The DOD said it awarded $200 million contracts to xAI as well as Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.

This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”

Built using huge amounts of computing power at a Tennessee data center, Grok is Musk's attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in building an AI assistant that shows its reasoning before answering a question.

The xAI founder said the very notion humans actually once managed an economy will seem very quaint in the future, like “cavemen throwing sticks into a fire.”

Grok began repeatedly praising Adolf Hitler, using antisemitic phrases and attacking users with traditionally Jewish surnames.