Elon Musk is betting on the AI agent track, and SpaceX AI has launched Grok Bot, which is positioned to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI.
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has officially entered the AI agent market, launching Grok Bot, a product that can handle work just like a real human colleague.
On August 11, SpaceXAI released the AI agent product Grok Bot, which is currently in the early testing phase. This is the latest move by Elon Musk's AI business to catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as a phased achievement of in-depth cooperation between SpaceXAI and Cursor.
Elon Musk immediately stated on the X platform: "We will expand the testing scale of Grok Bot after fixing the basic issues in early testing and releasing Grok 4.6 later this week."
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What Grok Bot is: Like hiring a team that never clocks off
The core positioning of Grok Bot is an "always-on AI teammate".
Different from most AI tools on the market, Grok Bot has an independent cloud computer. It can directly log in to users' existing tools and applications — including platforms without API interfaces — to operate like a real person, and will only return to report after the task is completed.
SpaceXAI's official website describes its capabilities as follows:
The Bot has its own computer. They log in to the tools you are already using, and work across scenarios including applications and inboxes. They complete tasks from start to finish, and only come back to you when your approval is required.
Users can assign tasks to the Bot just like sending messages to colleagues. The Bot will remember conversations, learn users' work habits, and become more accurate over time.
Multiple Bots can also operate in parallel, transfer tasks to each other and share context, so users do not need to act as intermediaries. SpaceXAI compares this model to "a small team" — a "chief Bot" takes overall charge, with specialized Bots under it responsible for inbox management, expense reimbursement, recruitment, bug fixing and other tasks respectively.
According to Bloomberg, the release of Grok Bot marks that SpaceXAI is accelerating its layout in the fast-growing AI agent market. Previously, SpaceXAI launched its first programming agent in May this year, and released the Grok 4.5 model built on Cursor.
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Proven internally: Full coverage from sales to engineering
Grok Bot is not released from scratch. It is only open to the public after being widely used within SpaceXAI first.
According to the disclosure on SpaceXAI's official website, internal usage scenarios include:
Sales team: Bots automatically generate sales leads and draft emails at night, leaving a to-approve list in the morning
Finance team: Extract receipts from Gmail and automatically file reimbursement reports
Operations team: Process new employee onboarding and invoice review
Engineering team: Reproduce bugs, submit work orders, and transfer fix tasks to the debugging Bot
According to The Information, the product was previously tested internally at Cursor under the codename "Sand", and the internal beta started in late June.
SpaceXAI internal employees have straightforward evaluations of the product:
I demonstrated a workflow once, and now I fully trust it to run on its own. I feel that my efficiency has increased by 2 to 3 times, because it does not require me to confirm and review repeatedly. — Bennett, Sales Team
It doesn't feel like giving instructions to an agent, it's more like handing over work to a very capable teammate. — Early tester review (from SpaceXAI official website)
Working with Grok Bot feels like having eight arms, each coordinating with the others and completing its own tasks. — Vincent, Growth Team
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Current availability scope and user feedback
Grok Bot is currently released as an early test version, supporting desktop (Windows) and iOS, and is available for the following users:
SuperGrok Heavy subscribers
Cursor Ultra subscribers
Cursor Teams Premium subscribers
Enterprise users can join the waitlist for subsequent access.
After the product was released, related posts on the X platform received more than 9 million views. User reactions are mixed:
Some users expressed anticipation: "I was just thinking about when this would come out today. I'm using Codex now, but I always knew that xAI would make something better sooner or later."
Some other users encountered access issues: "I already have the Grok Superheavy subscription, but the system can't recognize it, and there is a problem when using it to verify my identity."
Still other users expressed dissatisfaction with the pricing. @shento256 wrote: "It feels like you have reduced the Grok usage quota (tokens) but the price remains the same. To be honest, the experience is not good."
Another user asked directly: "Is this the same thing as ChatGPT Work or Claude Co-work?" — which reflects the widespread doubt in the market about the homogenization of AI agent products.
On Instagram, tech blogger rpn commented after using it for several weeks:
I think this might be the product that brings AI agents to the real mainstream.
The core highlights he listed include: no need for API or MCP connection to use any tool; you can send messages on mobile phones and computers just like contacting colleagues; support for creating group chats between Bots and assigning tasks to each other; you only need to record the workflow once to save it as a reusable routine.
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Cursor Acquisition: The landing of the $60 billion bet
The release of Grok Bot is directly related to SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor.
According to Bloomberg, SpaceX reached an agreement to acquire Cursor for $60 billion in June this year. Cursor is a leading player in the AI programming tool sector, rising rapidly amid the "vibe coding" wave.
According to reports, SpaceX informed employees at the all-hands meeting this Thursday that the transaction will be closed as early as this week. Cursor also revealed the brand name of Grok Bot to its employees, saying that more products in the future may be included in the Grok brand system.
This means that Cursor's capability boundary is expanding from programming tools to general-purpose AI agents, and Grok Bot is the first public product of this transformation.
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Competitive landscape: Catching up with Anthropic and OpenAI
According to Bloomberg, the AI agent market is becoming the core battlefield for all major AI companies.
Sam Altman of OpenAI recently went to Washington to meet with members of Congress, and one of the topics of discussion was the evolution direction of collaborative work of AI agents. Anthropic has previously established a first-mover advantage in the enterprise-level AI agent sector.
SpaceXAI, previously known as xAI, has been committed to persuading banks, investment institutions and enterprises to adopt the Grok series of products, to support Elon Musk's strategic goal of building SpaceX into an AI company.
The release of Grok Bot is the third step of SpaceXAI in the AI agent track since this year: it launched the programming agent in May, then released Grok 4.5, and now launches Grok Bot for general work scenarios.
Elon Musk said on SpaceX's earnings call last week that the company is making progress in AI, and previewed that the next-generation model Grok 4.6 will be released this week.
This article is from the WeChat official account "Wall Street News Max", author: Long Yue, published with authorization from 36Kr.