Grok Bot Just Dropped. (Brutally Honest Review)
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SpaceX just dropped their new AI super
agent called Grokbot, and everybody on
YouTube is just hyping it up. So, I
wanted to make a video with my honest
thoughts. So, in this video, I'm going
to break down what it is. I'm going to
show you all the features, as well as a
few use cases, so you can understand how
powerful it is. And if you don't know,
this is a new product from Cursor, which
was just bought by SpaceX for $60
billion. And this is a new competitor to
Claude Co-work, ChatGPT Work, Hermes
Agent, and Open Claw. So, by the end of
this video, you'll understand how
capable it is. So, let's dive in. So,
I'm going to break down in-depth exactly
how Grokbot works, but I want to quickly
show you what it looks like. So, right
here, I have a group chat with two
different AI agents. I have my content
agent, and I have my chief of staff
inside of a group chat performing
different tasks for me based on which
agent specializes in these different
tasks. Then, on the left-hand side, I
have all these different chats with my
agents that I'm able to interact with on
my desktop app, but I could also text it
from the app on my phone. In another
example, which I'm going to show you
later in this video, but I have it
connected to my ClickUp, where a
specific agent is going and pulling my
email and adding everything to a list
inside of my ClickUp account, so I could
see exactly what I need to do for the
day and the priority for all the
different tasks inside of ClickUp. Now,
I want to quickly talk about why I think
this is really such an important release
for us to pay attention to, whether or
not we switch from whatever agent that
we're using, whether that is Claude
Code, Claude Co-work, ChatGPT Work, or
even something like Hermes Agent or Open
Claw. So, if you haven't been following
the news, SpaceX actually just bought
Cursor, which is an IDE platform. Cursor
is basically an AI agent platform, which
was kind of like Claude Code before
Claude Code was a thing, and they paid
$60 billion for this just a couple of
months ago. And so, we've kind of been
anticipating this new product update
from both SpaceX, but now Cursor, since
they now own this product. And now, with
this, we have a new AI giant that has
just appeared, and that is Grokbot.
Because now, we have SpaceX, which
merged with Cursor, and now we have a
combination of all these platforms with
Grok, which is the xAI model from Elon
Musk. And this is now merged to a new
company called SpaceX AI. And if I were
to give a TLDR on what exactly Grok bot
is, I would say it's a team, and it's
not just a specific singular chatbot.
What I mean by this is we could have
multiple different bots or agents that
are orchestrating different
conversations with each other. So we
could have specific agents for sales or
operations, or for coding and research.
And then we could have a manager agent
that is able to interact with each of
these different agents through things
like group chats, which I'm going to
show you later in this video, in order
to accomplish our specific tasks. And
the most interesting part about this
whole release is we don't have to
interact with this on our desktop if we
don't want to. We can literally pull up
the Grok bot app on our phone and text
it like we're speaking with an actual
employee on our team. Now, with this we
have a new competitor on the block. So
before we had things like Claude
Co-work, we had ChatGPT Work, which was
released a couple of months ago. We had
Open Claw, and then we even had Hermes
Agent, which has been kind of taking the
world by storm right now in the AI
space. But now we have Grok bot, which
can be really powerful if you use it
correctly. Now, there's a really
interesting trend that I want to
highlight before I dive deeper into what
exactly Grok bot is. And that is every
AI company is making the same pivot. So
they're taking these specific developer
tools, and they're turning them into AI
employees that anybody, even
non-technical people like you and I, can
use. For example, first of all, we had
Claude Code, which is mainly for
developers, and then they turned that
into Claude Co-work, which is built for
knowledge workers, and basically anybody
can use this. Then we had Codex, which
is OpenAI's version of something like
Claude Code, which is again for
developers and not for everyday people,
and then they just released ChatGPT Work
just about a month ago. And then we had
Cursor, which is this IDE developer
platform, and if you're not a developer,
it was really difficult for you to use.
Well, now we have Grok Bot, which is a
very easy way for us to text with
different agents on our phone or just on
our computer. Now, one big key
distinction that I need to make right
now is that in order to access this as
of today, you do need to be either a
Cursor Ultra user, which is $200 per
month, or you need to have a Cursor
Premium Teams account, which is $120 per
seat per month. So, I went ahead, I paid
the $200 just so I could review this for
the video. So, make sure to leave a like
and subscribe to this channel if you
enjoy this. Next, once we open up the
application, we are now going to see
this. So, right here it shows your team
of always on agents that you can give
real work to. Then, I'm going to click
on reopen link here where it's going to
open it up in our browser, and we simply
just need to sign into our account. So,
go ahead and create one if you don't
already have one. Now, I'm going to
click on sign in here, and then I'm just
going to click open Grok Bot, and it's
going to open up our application. Now,
from here you can see a couple of
different things. I went ahead and
tested this on my phone, and it's
automatically synced with my desktop
app. Now, I'm going to quickly show you
how to download this on your phone as
well, because this is where this app
gets really fun and exciting in my
personal opinion. So, I'm on my iPhone,
I'm just in the App Store, I'm simply
just going to look up Grok Bot, and as
you can see right here, I already have
it downloaded, but just go ahead and
make sure to download this, and then I'm
just going to open mine up so you can
see what this looks like. Now, you can
see, just like I showed on my desktop
before, I have a couple of agents that
I've spun up. Um I have a chief of
staff, I have an inbox triage agent, and
I even have a group chat where both of
these agents are interacting with each
other, and I could also click this plus
button in order to either create a new
bot or a new group chat with these
different bots. All right, so now I'm
going to give you a tour of the Grok Bot
application on the desktop, and it
functions very similar on the web app as
well. And a key thing I want to note is
that it functions very simply. I really
do think that Cursor and XAI are really
trying to make this product as simple to
use for everyday people like you and I,
which is something I really appreciate
about it. So, first of all, this is what
the platform looks like. On the left,
you can see we have a couple of
different like group chats or chats that
we have with our specific agents. I have
the ability to create a new agent. Now,
I'm going to open up some of these
previous agents that I have. So, for
example, I have this agent here that is
my chief of staff. And what I've done is
I've configured a few things inside of
this. I've connected it to my Google
Calendar as well as to my Gmail. So,
it's able to see everything in regards
to like my admin tasks that are going on
inside of my business. Next up, I have
this content bot, which I'm setting up
to specifically help me with my YouTube
videos. So, as you can see right here, I
fed it my YouTube channel. It went ahead
and analyzed, you know, the titles and
thumbnails that I used to understand
what type of video I want to create. And
then, as you can see here, I basically
said, "I'm working on this new video and
I want you to help me with the title and
the packaging." So, based on the titles
that I've used for my previous videos,
it gave me a couple of different ideas
here, which I actually think are pretty
good. And it even gave me a thumbnail
direction here. Now, another really cool
feature, and it's probably something I'm
the most excited about, is the fact that
we could have group chats with multiple
different agents working at the same
time. So, right here, I created this
chat, and this is my content and my
chief of staff group chat. Now, these
two specific agents are able to work
together in order to tackle different
tasks. So, for example, I basically came
here and I said, "I want you to look
through my different content ideas that
I have stored in ClickUp, and then I
want you to look at everything on my
Google Calendar as well as inside of my
email inbox, and then come up with the
things that I should prioritize." So,
first of all, the chief of staff went
and looked through my email and my
Google Calendar because that is
specifically what this agent is
instructed to do. And then, as you can
see here, my chief of staff bot then
texted my content bot in order to go and
find the specific content ideas I was
working on with that specific agent.
Now, since I connected ClickUp to my
Grok bot agents, I can now come directly
to Grok bot and basically just say,
"Hey, I want you to go and look inside
of my email inbox and from there I want
you to then add the top priority things
to my board inside of ClickUp as well as
add specific due dates there so I can
make sure to accomplish these things
over the next couple of days." And so,
since this is my inbox triage agent, it
has access to my Gmail so it's going to
go and pull from my actual email inbox.
And then what it's going to do is add
the different tasks that I need to
accomplish to my ClickUp and it will
assign the specific people on my team
that it needs to in order to get this
task done. And this is so cool because
gone are the days where I need to come
in here and manually add a specific task
myself. I could just have my agent on
Grok bot go and do this for me. Now,
just like that, a couple of minutes
later it went and pulled the different
things that I needed to do and it says
that it added them to my ClickUp, but
let's go ahead and double-check that it
did. Now, if I pull up my ClickUp, it
went and automatically found the
specific space inside of my workspace
that it was supposed to add this to
which is my list right here. And then as
you can see, we now have all of these
different tasks added along with the due
date and the specific priority based on
what this agent thought was the most
urgent from my email inbox. All right,
so taking this one step further, as you
can see, I'm inside of my content bot
chat here. And what I have pulled up is
I have a virtual computer which Grok bot
is able to use. This is a way for Grok
bot to go and perform different tasks
across like an actual computer. It's not
working on my local computer, instead
it's working in the cloud so that way I
could have it go and perform different
tasks for me on autopilot without
hindering me and being able to use my
computer while it's getting those tasks
done. So it could spin up multiple
virtual browsers just like this in order
to go and do things. And then and as you
can see below that, I have routines. So,
I'm going to show you how quickly it is
to build out a routine, which is
basically just a scheduled task for our
bots to go and accomplish for us. So,
I'm just going to click create routine,
and I could just give this a name. I'm
going to call this content scrape. I
could add my specific instructions, so
let me just add that now. I want you to
go and scrape my YouTube competitors on
YouTube in order to find content ideas
every single day for me. I want it to be
in my YouTube style, so analyze my
YouTube videos to get a get a sense of
the types of content I make in order to
find winning ideas for me to make videos
about every single day. So, basically I
just give it that very basic
instruction, and I can add a specific
trigger. There's a really cool thing
that I want to note here. So, not only
can we add this on a schedule, where
like every single hour every single day
at a specific point in time this will
run, but we could also add a trigger.
So, let's say if somebody in Slack sends
us a message, it can then automatically
trigger a routine in order to go and
accomplish a task for us. As of right
now, there's only a couple of different
triggers that we can do. So, we have
Slack messages, a specific GitHub event,
Teams message, a linear issue, and a
couple of other different things. I'd
assume that they're probably going to
add a lot more different apps and
actions here. So, that way we could
create kind of like rudimentary
automations instead of having these
routines run on a scheduled task, which
we've seen with Claude CoWork and
ChatGPT work, for example. Now, for this
specific use case, I want this to be on
a schedule every single day, so let's
just click on this. I'm going to come
over here. I'm going to make this 8:00
a.m. So, now every single day it's going
to go and scrape content, as you can see
right here. Now, I'm just going to come
here and say, "For that routine that we
just created, I want you to not only
scrape content, but I want you to find
five winning content ideas every single
day, and then I want you to add those to
my board inside of ClickUp, and assign
me to that task along with the urgency."
All right, so now a couple of minutes
later, it went ahead and scraped my
YouTube competitors. It found a couple
of different winning topics here. And
obviously, I could refine this a bit
more. This is the first time that I've
ran this. I'd need to actually give like
my real competitors that I wanted to
scrape in order to make this perfect.
But I just wanted to show exactly how
this would work in practice. And then if
I come back to ClickUp, you can now see
that these video ideas were now added to
my ClickUp board along with it assigned
me, as well as it assigned me as the
person to perform this task. And then it
added the priority level here. And if I
click on routines, you can now see that
this is going to run every single day at
8:00 a.m. And I'll wake up to content
ideas preloaded into my ClickUp YouTube
idea board. Now, coming back to plugins,
there are a lot of different apps that
we could add directly to our GrokBot
inside of here. You could see that this
is a marketplace with basically just all
these apps we can connect to. But let's
say there is an app that isn't inside of
this marketplace that you want to
connect to, and that could be a problem.
Well, we could use something called the
Zapier MCP. As you can see, I have this
configured. And this allows us to
connect to 9,000 plus different apps
with just a couple of different clicks.
Now, I'm going to show you real quickly
how you could configure this because I
genuinely think this is going to level
up the capabilities of your GrokBot
because of all the different apps you
can connect to. So, first of all, go to
the link in the description in order to
access the Zapier MCP. Make sure to sign
up for an account. And then once we have
an account created, we can just come
here and create an MCP server. So, click
on create, click MCP servers. Now, the
cool part is once we actually sign up
for the Zapier MCP, I could just come to
new message and click {slash} and
there's actually a skill inside of
GrokBot called Zapier setup. So, I just
click on this and I could click send.
And now it's going to go and set this up
for me on autopilot. So, it's now
showing that I have my Zapier MCP
installed and connected. And I could
just tell it to go connect to any of the
apps that we want to use, and then it
will do that for me. What it will
probably do is ask me to authorize it,
so it will pull up basically the app
that I want to connect to. I'll have to
click a button and then go into that
account and just click authorize. But,
it's basically that simple in order to
enable all these different applications.
Now, there's another cool feature that I
want to point out right now. And so,
let's say we are in a conversation with
a specific agent. For example, I have
this content bot that I'm talking with
right now. And I could go ahead and tag
other bots. So, if I want to tag the
chief of staff and say, "Hey, I want you
to check my email, see everything that's
urgent for me to accomplish right now.
Um I really want to work on these videos
over the next couple of days. Let me
know if you think I have time for it."
So, obviously as you could see, I'm
basically tagging one of my team members
in this chat conversation. So, we could
do this with any of the different agents
that we create. And of course, right now
I only have a couple agents that I've
pre-configured, but I can imagine this
will get pretty powerful and we have
maybe like five to 10 different agents
for specific things. And it has all this
context on us because these agents are
going to be more specialized to do
different tasks. And now it looks like
we got a response from our chief of
staff. So, I click on this, it's now
going to pull this up. So, the chief of
staff said, "Check the email and the
calendar for Brock." Basically, it said,
"Yes, the video should be the focus for
the next couple of days because the
calendar load is light." So, this is
pretty cool, the fact that we could
interact between these different agents
in real time. All right, so at the
beginning of this video, I promised that
I'd give you my honest thoughts on this
after playing around with it. So, let's
quickly talk about what I like versus
the things that I really dislike about
this. As well as I'm going to be posting
a video in the next couple of days going
over different use cases of this because
everything I showed in this video was
pretty simple and it honestly is pretty
powerful if you do use it correctly. So,
first of all, what I did like about this
is how dead simple it is. I think tools
like OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, people
want something like that in their life.
They see it's really capable, but they
see it on the internet and they're kind
of intimidated by it because it's really
hard to set up and a lot can go wrong if
you don't do it correctly. Well, this is
extremely easy. You could download an
app on your phone to run this. You could
download the desktop app and it could
simply go and perform tasks for you.
Another thing that I do like about this
is it does genuinely feel like a
teammate or I guess multiple teammates
working at the same time. I love that
you could just message with it like it's
a friend and it's able to go and perform
different tasks for you. And then on top
of that, I absolutely love the idea of
different bot group chats. The fact that
our agents can go and work together in
order to get tasks done. I think it's
just really cool and it's probably the
future of how we're going to interact
with AI over time. Now, let's talk about
the things I'm not particularly sold on
at least right now after using this the
past day. First of all, it does feel
like a beta. Kind of does feel rough
around the edges. It just doesn't feel
very polished. I think that they have a
lot of improvements they can do with
this platform. And then having to pay
$200 a month to use this right now does
seem like a lot of money. I do think
there are better alternatives out there
using something like Claude Co-work or
ChatGPT work for much cheaper. Now,
going back to where I was talking about
how it feels like a beta product. I
almost feel like they created this
because they are trying to recreate
Buzz, which is the platform that Jack
Dorsey just released a couple of days
ago. So, in my opinion, I feel like
that's why it's not super polished
because they probably rushed to release
this to take advantage of that attention
on social media. Next, the last thing
that I'm not too sold on. I'm honestly
not sure if I like this or not. I almost
feel like it is too simple. Like yes, we
can create skills inside of Grok bot,
but it's not very easy to sort through
all of the skills and see everything
there. It's almost like they're trying
to make the interface like too simple,
like we're just chatting over SMS to a
friend or something, which I guess could
be good and it's probably the future,
but it's taking some time for me to get
used to since I am used to using Claude
Co-work specifically. Anyways, guys, I
hope you got some value from this video.
Make sure to like and subscribe for more
content like this. And again, I'm going
to have a video coming out with more use
cases of how to use Grok bot over the
coming days. Thanks for staying to the
end and I will see you in the next
video. Cheers.
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This video provides an overview of 'Grokbot', a new AI agent platform resulting from SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor. The creator demonstrates how Grokbot functions as an integrated team of AI agents capable of performing complex tasks—such as inbox management and content creation—through natural language interactions, mobile app support, and cloud-based automation. While the creator appreciates its simplicity, agent collaboration capabilities, and ease of use, they also note that the product currently feels like a beta, has a high entry price of $200 per month, and may face competition from more polished, cost-effective alternatives.
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