Just now, Elon Musk's ultimate trump card, Grok Bot, has arrived.

After Elon Musk acquired Cursor for $60 billion, he finally showed his first trump card!

Just now, SpaceXAI officially released the early beta version of Grok Bot — an AI teammate with its own cloud computer.

Few days ago, the unreleased general Agent with the internal codename "Sand" was revealed at Cursor's all-hands meeting. No one expected that it would debut under the name Grok Bot so soon.

Elon Musk's ultimate move has finally been released!

He also revealed that the Grok Bot adapted for Grok 4.6 version will be released this week, which is a full-throated offensive.

Grok Bot is claimed to be an AI Agent that can log into your various accounts independently and complete end-to-end work just like a real human employee.

What's more impressive is that it keeps running even when you close your laptop. Since it operates on the cloud, it stays online 24/7.

To put it simply, it is exactly like your Agent teammate sitting right at your workstation.

As soon as the news was released, Silicon Valley was set abuzz. Tech bloggers, SaaS founders and independent developers have all shared their own Bot workflows, and a list of 100 real use cases has gone viral on social media.

At the same time, Grok 4.6 also made an early surprise appearance in the Cursor model list.

New model plus new Agent, two major releases in one week. This offensive from Elon Musk is fast and fierce.

AI Teammates on Duty, Keep Running Even When Your Device Is Off

Grok Bot has a very clear positioning: it is not a tool, but a colleague.

Behind each Bot is an independent cloud-based Linux virtual machine. It is equipped with its own browser, file system and terminal, and can open web pages, click buttons, fill out forms and capture screens just like a human.

You only need to log in once in Gmail, then the Bot can use your session to process emails; you only need to log in once in Salesforce, then the Bot can help you update customer information, pull reports and answer quarterly questions. You don't even need to turn on your laptop.

When encountering nodes that require human decision-making, such as login, SSO verification and payment confirmation, the Bot will actively "hand over" the control to you. After you finish the operation, it will continue the unfinished work.

This design directly solves the fatal flaw of all previous personal Agents: you have to keep your computer running all the time, and everything stops working once the network disconnects.

A month ago, Claude Cowork just announced its cloud launch to solve the same problem, but Grok Bot is cloud-native from the very first day of its release.

Multi-Bot Parallel Operation, One Person Equals a Whole Team

If there is only one Bot, it can only be called an assistant. Grok Bot is designed for team collaboration.

You can run multiple Bots at the same time and assign them different responsibilities: one monitors emails, one processes sales data, one tracks competitor dynamics, and one drafts content. Bots can communicate with each other and cooperate with division of labor, and even when one Bot encounters a problem it cannot solve, it will actively call another Bot for help.

Lenny Rachitsky, a well-known product influencer, directly stated after getting the early internal test access: This is the most exciting new AI product he has seen in a very long time.

He used Grok Bot to complete the following tasks: automatically match job seekers with recruiting companies, automatically reply to support emails (saving several hours every day), scan credit card bills to find cancelable subscriptions, and generate research briefings for podcast guests.

Some people even used it to build a grocery shopping Agent. It opens Instacart and Amazon at the same time to compare prices, product quantities and delivery fees, and automatically places orders every Friday.

Even when ordering takeout on DoorDash, the Bot can help you monitor group-buying links in the chat group, recommend dishes, and directly navigate you to the order page.

In the past, each of these tasks required opening an App, monitoring an interface, and doing a lot of comparison work. Now you can leave all of them to the Bot, and you only need to click "Confirm" at the final step.

The most "the future has arrived" feature of Grok Bot is follow-along learning.

You don't need to write complex prompts or configure workflows. You only need to operate as you normally do: open the browser, log in to the tool, and execute the task. The Bot will watch beside you and automatically record all the operation steps.

The next time you encounter the same task? The Bot will directly reuse your operation process, and keep optimizing as it is used.

This turns every repetitive task into one-click automation, and the way to "program" it is to demonstrate the whole process to it once.

In the past, to build a set of automated workflows, you had to fiddle with cron scheduled tasks, MCP servers and Docker images, and also ensure that your computer never shut down.

Now none of these operations are needed. Just click a few times in the Grok Bot settings interface and write a few natural language rules, that is all the configuration required.

The First Major Move of the $60 Billion Acquisition

Directly Targeting Anthropic

To put it plainly, Grok Bot is the first major integration outcome of that $60 billion acquisition.

The most direct benefit of the integration is: all functions in Cursor can be used by Grok Bot. The connectors for Notion, Slack, GitHub and other tools you have already set up in Cursor are directly inherited by Grok Bot, no need to reconfigure them again.

Developers who have used Cursor basically have no learning curve when getting started. More importantly, the Bot can directly call the Cursor Cloud Agent to write code.

However, the price of Grok Bot is indeed not low: SuperGrok Heavy costs $200-300 per month, Cursor Ultra is $200 per month, and the team version Cursor Teams Premium is charged at $120 per month per person.

This move of Grok Bot directly targets Anthropic's Claude Cowork.

The product logic of the two sides is surprisingly similar: both are cloud-based Agents, both can work 24/7 non-stop, and both support multi-Agent parallel collaboration.

But Grok Bot is backed by the Cursor ecosystem and SpaceXAI's Colossus supercomputing infrastructure, so it starts at an extremely high starting point.

The significance of Grok Bot is not just "another AI Agent".

It makes office workers truly feel that AI is a colleague who sits right next to you, logs into your tools, and finishes the work for you.

From Claude Cowork to Grok Bot, AI is gradually moving from conversational interaction to actual on-duty work.

References:

https://x.com/bot/status/2087224798078517251

https://x.ai/bot

This article is from the WeChat official account "AI Era", Author: ASI Revelation, Editor: Solomon, Published with authorization from 36Kr.