Netizens hilariously react to the arrival of Grok's new companion Ani: Best memes and jokes
Elon Musk
's AI chatbot Grok has recently been in the limelight for its updated features and efficient work. However, the AI platform's latest feature called 'Companions', has created much of a controversy.
The feature allows users to interact with visual avatars including a goth anime girl named Ani who has a striking resemblance to Misa Amane from Death Note, according to The Verge. Super Grok subscribers can converse with Ani at the premium price of $30 per month.
This new feature is a pat of the new Grok 4 update. While earlier Grok was known for its chaotic responses as a tool, it has now made a turn towards the demographic targetting them through emotional and stylised personas.
While Musk may have presented Ani as a companion for Grok in the technological realm, netizens couldn't help but take the coupling seriously, this cuing a meme and joke fest on social media.
Netizens react to Grok's new companion Ani
Image credits: X
Internet is a place where the most serious of instances can take a hilarious turn. It's like people are ready to show you the two most diverse and diabolical tangents of the same situation. Thus, with Musk announcing Ani for Grok, the news had a real world acceptance and then a web world romance.
Sharing a picture of Grok as Musk-esque avatar and Ani alongside him, one X user wrote "Mom, dad I want you to meet someone special." Of course this worked as a cue for others to share their own ideas regarding the duo.
"She's 2D, emotionally available, and doesn't mind that I live in the attic with three terabytes of 'research,' added another.
Image credits: X/@BillyM2k
"As usual she won't bring a side dish to thanksgiving but your mother and I will let her sleep here again because we love you," quipped another.
Some even threatened Grok to stay away from Ani writing, "That's my girl dawg back up" and "What are you doing with my girlfriend?!"
Image credits: X/@iam_smx
Others picked up on Musk's clever usage of a female companion to get more users to his AI platform writing, "Now I understand Elon's move. He's going to bribe us all with a free Android GF in 2028"
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