Twitter introduced Vine in January 2013, allowing users to share small snippets of video that were six seconds or less.

During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

Elon Musk's xAI partners with Kalshi to deliver real-time AI insights for prediction markets, processing news, data for tailored analysis.

The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, the former Pentagon employee said.

One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani."

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.”

In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”

And does the AI element relate to an algorithm, or a feed of AI-generated content? First off, I highly doubt that X is ever going to launch a separate Vine app. It’s just too much engineering effort,

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