> I'm sure they'll make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. They and others, there's probably dozens of projects popping up to create m

> I'm sure they'll make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. They and others, there's probably dozens of projects popping up to create multimodal companion AIs. character.ai specializes in fictional or custom characters, Discord has some bots that allow for giving them a personality of sorts, Facebook is pushing hard for it, even making the AI bots message you instead of only replying, etc. It's happening already, and if xAI doesn't join in they may lose a possible market opportunity, depending on whether 'companion' AI sticks.