Two new AI assistants are generating buzz in Silicon Valley: Elon Musk's Grok Bot and an invite-only, text-based assistant called Instinct, which is reportedly raising a Series A round to buy more com…
SpaceXAI widened access to Grok Bot on August 21st, bringing its cloud-computer agent to SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and all Cursor Teams subscribers, while every other user gets a limited-usage free…
SpaceXAI and Cursor released Grok Bot, an all-new iPhone and Mac app featuring AI agents described as 'AI teammates you can give real work to,' launching in beta today on Mac and iOS, with Windows and…
Rakazo, a self-hosted platform for running AI agents, has been released as an open source alternative to Grok Bot, with Apache-2.0 licensing, no pricing tiers, and unlimited bots. Each bot operates in…
XAI launched Grok Bot on August 11, an always-on AI teammate product built with Cursor that operates from a cloud computer and can sign into apps without APIs. A developer has created a directory on P…
Claire Vo, host of the How I AI podcast, tested xAI's Grok Bot, Grok 4.6, and Cursor Origin, finding that Grok Bot's multi-account connectors are a unique feature that made her actually use the produc…
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work, xAI's Grok Bot, and Lindy's AI Teammate now compete in the always-on AI coworker category, marking a shift as frontier labs enter the space. Paperclip, an open-source project fo…
Grok Bot, an AI agent from xAI, is being used by developers as a chat-based interface to replace traditional software UIs, with one developer rewriting a strength training app entirely through chat an…
Anthropic is internally testing a new feature called Hub Mode in its Claude mobile app, which appears to be a revamped version of its previously removed Orbit feature and is designed to manage sub-age…
Elie Steinbock, founder of Inbox Zero, launched Bot Directory on August 17th, a searchable catalog of prompts for Grok Bot that lets users create agents for tasks like email triage, sales follow-up, a…
SpaceXAI introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI-agent service designed to operate as an autonomous teammate with its own cloud environment, capable of logging into applications and performing multi-step…
Honeymatcha.io, a new service, lets users connect their Grok bots to schedule meetings, coordinate events, and discover matches while keeping calendar details private and requiring human approval for …
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot, a system of persistent AI agents that operate on dedicated cloud computers and can execute multi-step tasks across business applications, currently in beta for SuperGrok He…
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot in early beta on August 11, offering enterprises $120-per-seat AI coworkers that operate on cloud computers and learn workflows by demonstration, three days after closing it…
Lots of Agents, a new open-source tool by developer Carl Lippert, lets macOS users run multiple signed-in copies of AI coding apps like Grok Bot, Cursor, Claude, and ChatGPT on a single Mac, each with…
Meta Platforms Inc. is offering $1 million-plus retainer equity grants to engineers who are leaving, but the incentives are failing to stem a resignation wave triggered by its own layoffs and forced r…
SpaceXAI completed its acquisition of Cursor on August 14, following the release of Grok Bot and Grok 4.6 models. The deal, initially inked in April, makes Cursor a part of SpaceXAI, which also absorb…
XAI's Grok Bot outperformed Anthropic's Claude Code in hands-on testing, requiring zero setup and offering persistent cloud machines, mobile computer-use access, and multi-bot collaboration, but its f…
DeepSeek, Alibaba, and xAI all shipped new frontier models on August 13, 2026: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (1.6T MoE, 49B active, 1M context, priced at $0.435/$0.87 per million tokens), Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (op…
SpaceXAI introduced Grok Bot, an AI agent platform developed with Cursor, which SpaceX is acquiring for $60 billion, enabling autonomous agents to handle tasks like sales, recruiting, and bug fixes. T…