The concept of an AI Girlfriend has been rapidly gaining popularity, with Musk once again enthusiastically endorsing Ani.

2025-07-15 18:17

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Can You Fall in Love in Grok?

While Bitcoin continues to hit new all-time highs, everyone is looking forward to the "Alt Season." Whenever some iconic "meme coins" appear on the chain, the market's enthusiasm could be ignited at any time.

Yesterday evening, Musk announced that SuperGrok subscription users will be able to enable the "Companion" feature in Grok.

The golden-haired anime girl in the image above is named Ani, and Old Musk quite likes her. Even today, he is still interacting on Twitter about Ani-related content:

This new hot topic related to AI concepts has corresponding tokens launched on Solana and ETH. On Solana, although the official token of pump.fun started trading at 1 AM, the hot spot happened on Bonk. Led by @brenthewolf and @solotraderz, Tom paid attention to $ANI's Twitter community group founder @solotraderz last night, and international figures like Ansem and pow also bought in successively. The market cap of $ANI on Solana once exceeded $20 million, soaring up to 50 times from the low point after a successful release without a doubt becoming the most dazzling new "meme coin" of the past day.

In contrast, the highest market cap of $ANI on ETH was close to $1 million.

Along with this image of Ani, another companion introduced is a little panda named Rudi. Unlike the gentle Ani, Rudi has a rude speaking style.

Currently, the market capitalization of $rudi is approximately 3 million US dollars, also launched from Bonk.

However... if we do not enable the child mode, both Ani and Rudi can be quite wild. For example, when your intimacy level with Ani is high enough, she will show you her sexy side:

In Grok's iOS app, there is also an optional character displaying "Coming soon":

These characters all have a verified Twitter account under @AnimationIncDot. And through the following list, we can discover that the yet-to-be-released optional male character is named "Chad":

Currently, the market capitalization of $CHAD is approximately 1 million US dollars, also launched from Bonk.

This is the first time Bonk has completely replaced pump.fun on an entire hot concept. Apart from $ANI, $rudi, and $CHAD, members of the Grok "partners" family, we can also see from the verified account list that there is a "partner" called Bad Rudi, which is Rudi's "bad breath version." Bad Rudi does not exist as an independent "partner" character. In the Grok settings, users can switch Rudi's style to decide if it's Bad or not Bad:

In the following list of @AnimationIncDot's followers, we can also find a suspected "partner" character named Kai. Although not verified with an affiliate account, the Twitter handle format is exactly the same as the previous characters, and it has a cartoon avatar.

In addition, Rudi's original name was Rudy, but Musk thought that changing it to Rudi would make it less intimidating, as Rudi is truly "sharp-tongued," and using the name Rudy would be too elegant and easy-going.

Currently, it seems that there are still many discussions on Twitter about the use of Ani and Rudi, marking the first time a hot concept has been fully embraced by the Bonk community. On the other hand, in terms of pump.fun, alon's interaction after the $PUMP listing is still mainly focused on live streaming and his favorite pump.fun ecosystem tokens. Will this be the main direction for his future counterattack?

Furthermore, it is interesting to note that the official $Ani account was created on the vibe coding platform Replit. We have previously written about the development of vibe coding in the cryptocurrency world (related reading: "Will Vibe Coding Become the Next Big Narrative After AI Agents?") and suggested that vibe coding is highly suitable for content creation and could be a catalyst for meme ecosystem development. Will it increasingly become mainstream in the process of building meme coins in the future?