# Two new AI assistants have Silicon Valley buzzing

> Source: <https://sources.news/p/two-new-ai-assistants-have-silicon>
> Published: 2026-08-21 23:17:34+00:00

My social feeds have recently been dominated by buzz for two new AI products: **Elon Musk’s** [Grok Bot](https://x.ai/bot) and an invite-only, text-based AI assistant called Instinct. 

While the latter has yet to officially emerge from stealth, the rumor circulating is that Instinct’s small team, which includes an early Sierra researcher named **Noah Shinn**, is currently raising a Series A round of funding to buy more compute and open its waitlist. Like Poke before it, which was recently sold to Cognition, Instinct seems to be orchestrating off-the-shelf models with some specialized fine-tuning and tool use. It’s unusually capable and proactive at web-related tasks. There are a lot of little nice touches that help onboard a user more quickly, like the agent automatically researching your background while you’re setting it up. Early user takeaways often describe it as [“OpenClaw for normal people.”](https://x.com/pitdesi/status/2090579987778937159)