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SpaceX just dropped their new AI super

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agent called Grokbot, and everybody on

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YouTube is just hyping it up. So, I

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wanted to make a video with my honest

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thoughts. So, in this video, I'm going

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to break down what it is. I'm going to

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show you all the features, as well as a

0:13

few use cases, so you can understand how

0:15

powerful it is. And if you don't know,

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this is a new product from Cursor, which

0:18

was just bought by SpaceX for $60

0:21

billion. And this is a new competitor to

0:24

Claude Co-work, ChatGPT Work, Hermes

0:26

Agent, and Open Claw. So, by the end of

0:28

this video, you'll understand how

0:30

capable it is. So, let's dive in. So,

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I'm going to break down in-depth exactly

0:34

how Grokbot works, but I want to quickly

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show you what it looks like. So, right

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here, I have a group chat with two

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different AI agents. I have my content

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agent, and I have my chief of staff

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inside of a group chat performing

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different tasks for me based on which

0:47

agent specializes in these different

0:49

tasks. Then, on the left-hand side, I

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have all these different chats with my

0:53

agents that I'm able to interact with on

0:54

my desktop app, but I could also text it

0:57

from the app on my phone. In another

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example, which I'm going to show you

1:00

later in this video, but I have it

1:01

connected to my ClickUp, where a

1:03

specific agent is going and pulling my

1:05

email and adding everything to a list

1:07

inside of my ClickUp account, so I could

1:09

see exactly what I need to do for the

1:11

day and the priority for all the

1:12

different tasks inside of ClickUp. Now,

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I want to quickly talk about why I think

1:16

this is really such an important release

1:18

for us to pay attention to, whether or

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not we switch from whatever agent that

1:21

we're using, whether that is Claude

1:23

Code, Claude Co-work, ChatGPT Work, or

1:25

even something like Hermes Agent or Open

1:27

Claw. So, if you haven't been following

1:29

the news, SpaceX actually just bought

1:32

Cursor, which is an IDE platform. Cursor

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is basically an AI agent platform, which

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was kind of like Claude Code before

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Claude Code was a thing, and they paid

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$60 billion for this just a couple of

1:43

months ago. And so, we've kind of been

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anticipating this new product update

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from both SpaceX, but now Cursor, since

1:49

they now own this product. And now, with

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this, we have a new AI giant that has

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just appeared, and that is Grokbot.

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Because now, we have SpaceX, which

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merged with Cursor, and now we have a

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combination of all these platforms with

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Grok, which is the xAI model from Elon

2:07

Musk. And this is now merged to a new

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company called SpaceX AI. And if I were

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to give a TLDR on what exactly Grok bot

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is, I would say it's a team, and it's

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not just a specific singular chatbot.

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What I mean by this is we could have

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multiple different bots or agents that

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are orchestrating different

2:24

conversations with each other. So we

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could have specific agents for sales or

2:27

operations, or for coding and research.

2:30

And then we could have a manager agent

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that is able to interact with each of

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these different agents through things

2:35

like group chats, which I'm going to

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show you later in this video, in order

2:38

to accomplish our specific tasks. And

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the most interesting part about this

2:41

whole release is we don't have to

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interact with this on our desktop if we

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don't want to. We can literally pull up

2:47

the Grok bot app on our phone and text

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it like we're speaking with an actual

2:51

employee on our team. Now, with this we

2:53

have a new competitor on the block. So

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before we had things like Claude

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Co-work, we had ChatGPT Work, which was

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released a couple of months ago. We had

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Open Claw, and then we even had Hermes

3:02

Agent, which has been kind of taking the

3:03

world by storm right now in the AI

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space. But now we have Grok bot, which

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can be really powerful if you use it

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correctly. Now, there's a really

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interesting trend that I want to

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highlight before I dive deeper into what

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exactly Grok bot is. And that is every

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AI company is making the same pivot. So

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they're taking these specific developer

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tools, and they're turning them into AI

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employees that anybody, even

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non-technical people like you and I, can

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use. For example, first of all, we had

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Claude Code, which is mainly for

3:31

developers, and then they turned that

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into Claude Co-work, which is built for

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knowledge workers, and basically anybody

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can use this. Then we had Codex, which

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is OpenAI's version of something like

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Claude Code, which is again for

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developers and not for everyday people,

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and then they just released ChatGPT Work

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just about a month ago. And then we had

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Cursor, which is this IDE developer

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platform, and if you're not a developer,

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it was really difficult for you to use.

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Well, now we have Grok Bot, which is a

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very easy way for us to text with

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different agents on our phone or just on

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our computer. Now, one big key

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distinction that I need to make right

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now is that in order to access this as

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of today, you do need to be either a

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Cursor Ultra user, which is $200 per

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month, or you need to have a Cursor

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Premium Teams account, which is $120 per

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seat per month. So, I went ahead, I paid

4:16

the $200 just so I could review this for

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the video. So, make sure to leave a like

4:20

and subscribe to this channel if you

4:22

enjoy this. Next, once we open up the

4:24

application, we are now going to see

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this. So, right here it shows your team

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of always on agents that you can give

4:29

real work to. Then, I'm going to click

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on reopen link here where it's going to

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open it up in our browser, and we simply

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just need to sign into our account. So,

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go ahead and create one if you don't

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already have one. Now, I'm going to

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click on sign in here, and then I'm just

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going to click open Grok Bot, and it's

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going to open up our application. Now,

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from here you can see a couple of

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different things. I went ahead and

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tested this on my phone, and it's

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automatically synced with my desktop

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app. Now, I'm going to quickly show you

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how to download this on your phone as

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well, because this is where this app

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gets really fun and exciting in my

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personal opinion. So, I'm on my iPhone,

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I'm just in the App Store, I'm simply

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just going to look up Grok Bot, and as

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you can see right here, I already have

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it downloaded, but just go ahead and

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make sure to download this, and then I'm

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just going to open mine up so you can

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see what this looks like. Now, you can

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see, just like I showed on my desktop

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before, I have a couple of agents that

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I've spun up. Um I have a chief of

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staff, I have an inbox triage agent, and

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I even have a group chat where both of

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these agents are interacting with each

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other, and I could also click this plus

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button in order to either create a new

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bot or a new group chat with these

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different bots. All right, so now I'm

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going to give you a tour of the Grok Bot

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application on the desktop, and it

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functions very similar on the web app as

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well. And a key thing I want to note is

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that it functions very simply. I really

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do think that Cursor and XAI are really

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trying to make this product as simple to

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use for everyday people like you and I,

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which is something I really appreciate

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about it. So, first of all, this is what

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the platform looks like. On the left,

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you can see we have a couple of

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different like group chats or chats that

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we have with our specific agents. I have

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the ability to create a new agent. Now,

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I'm going to open up some of these

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previous agents that I have. So, for

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example, I have this agent here that is

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my chief of staff. And what I've done is

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I've configured a few things inside of

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this. I've connected it to my Google

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Calendar as well as to my Gmail. So,

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it's able to see everything in regards

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to like my admin tasks that are going on

6:20

inside of my business. Next up, I have

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this content bot, which I'm setting up

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to specifically help me with my YouTube

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videos. So, as you can see right here, I

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fed it my YouTube channel. It went ahead

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and analyzed, you know, the titles and

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thumbnails that I used to understand

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what type of video I want to create. And

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then, as you can see here, I basically

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said, "I'm working on this new video and

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I want you to help me with the title and

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the packaging." So, based on the titles

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that I've used for my previous videos,

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it gave me a couple of different ideas

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here, which I actually think are pretty

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good. And it even gave me a thumbnail

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direction here. Now, another really cool

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feature, and it's probably something I'm

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the most excited about, is the fact that

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we could have group chats with multiple

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different agents working at the same

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time. So, right here, I created this

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chat, and this is my content and my

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chief of staff group chat. Now, these

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two specific agents are able to work

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together in order to tackle different

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tasks. So, for example, I basically came

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here and I said, "I want you to look

7:17

through my different content ideas that

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I have stored in ClickUp, and then I

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want you to look at everything on my

7:21

Google Calendar as well as inside of my

7:23

email inbox, and then come up with the

7:25

things that I should prioritize." So,

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first of all, the chief of staff went

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and looked through my email and my

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Google Calendar because that is

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specifically what this agent is

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instructed to do. And then, as you can

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see here, my chief of staff bot then

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texted my content bot in order to go and

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find the specific content ideas I was

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working on with that specific agent.

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Now, since I connected ClickUp to my

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Grok bot agents, I can now come directly

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to Grok bot and basically just say,

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"Hey, I want you to go and look inside

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of my email inbox and from there I want

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you to then add the top priority things

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to my board inside of ClickUp as well as

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add specific due dates there so I can

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make sure to accomplish these things

8:05

over the next couple of days." And so,

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since this is my inbox triage agent, it

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has access to my Gmail so it's going to

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go and pull from my actual email inbox.

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And then what it's going to do is add

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the different tasks that I need to

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accomplish to my ClickUp and it will

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assign the specific people on my team

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that it needs to in order to get this

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task done. And this is so cool because

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gone are the days where I need to come

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in here and manually add a specific task

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myself. I could just have my agent on

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Grok bot go and do this for me. Now,

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just like that, a couple of minutes

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later it went and pulled the different

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things that I needed to do and it says

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that it added them to my ClickUp, but

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let's go ahead and double-check that it

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did. Now, if I pull up my ClickUp, it

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went and automatically found the

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specific space inside of my workspace

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that it was supposed to add this to

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which is my list right here. And then as

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you can see, we now have all of these

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different tasks added along with the due

8:57

date and the specific priority based on

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what this agent thought was the most

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urgent from my email inbox. All right,

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so taking this one step further, as you

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can see, I'm inside of my content bot

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chat here. And what I have pulled up is

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I have a virtual computer which Grok bot

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is able to use. This is a way for Grok

9:14

bot to go and perform different tasks

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across like an actual computer. It's not

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working on my local computer, instead

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it's working in the cloud so that way I

9:23

could have it go and perform different

9:24

tasks for me on autopilot without

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hindering me and being able to use my

9:29

computer while it's getting those tasks

9:30

done. So it could spin up multiple

9:32

virtual browsers just like this in order

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to go and do things. And then and as you

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can see below that, I have routines. So,

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I'm going to show you how quickly it is

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to build out a routine, which is

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basically just a scheduled task for our

9:44

bots to go and accomplish for us. So,

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I'm just going to click create routine,

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and I could just give this a name. I'm

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going to call this content scrape. I

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could add my specific instructions, so

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let me just add that now. I want you to

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go and scrape my YouTube competitors on

9:58

YouTube in order to find content ideas

10:00

every single day for me. I want it to be

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in my YouTube style, so analyze my

10:05

YouTube videos to get a get a sense of

10:07

the types of content I make in order to

10:09

find winning ideas for me to make videos

10:11

about every single day. So, basically I

10:13

just give it that very basic

10:14

instruction, and I can add a specific

10:16

trigger. There's a really cool thing

10:18

that I want to note here. So, not only

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can we add this on a schedule, where

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like every single hour every single day

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at a specific point in time this will

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run, but we could also add a trigger.

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So, let's say if somebody in Slack sends

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us a message, it can then automatically

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trigger a routine in order to go and

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accomplish a task for us. As of right

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now, there's only a couple of different

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triggers that we can do. So, we have

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Slack messages, a specific GitHub event,

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Teams message, a linear issue, and a

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couple of other different things. I'd

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assume that they're probably going to

10:47

add a lot more different apps and

10:49

actions here. So, that way we could

10:50

create kind of like rudimentary

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automations instead of having these

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routines run on a scheduled task, which

10:57

we've seen with Claude CoWork and

10:59

ChatGPT work, for example. Now, for this

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specific use case, I want this to be on

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a schedule every single day, so let's

11:04

just click on this. I'm going to come

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over here. I'm going to make this 8:00

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a.m. So, now every single day it's going

11:09

to go and scrape content, as you can see

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right here. Now, I'm just going to come

11:12

here and say, "For that routine that we

11:15

just created, I want you to not only

11:16

scrape content, but I want you to find

11:18

five winning content ideas every single

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day, and then I want you to add those to

11:23

my board inside of ClickUp, and assign

11:25

me to that task along with the urgency."

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All right, so now a couple of minutes

11:30

later, it went ahead and scraped my

11:32

YouTube competitors. It found a couple

11:33

of different winning topics here. And

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obviously, I could refine this a bit

11:37

more. This is the first time that I've

11:38

ran this. I'd need to actually give like

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my real competitors that I wanted to

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scrape in order to make this perfect.

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But I just wanted to show exactly how

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this would work in practice. And then if

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I come back to ClickUp, you can now see

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that these video ideas were now added to

11:51

my ClickUp board along with it assigned

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me, as well as it assigned me as the

11:56

person to perform this task. And then it

11:58

added the priority level here. And if I

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click on routines, you can now see that

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this is going to run every single day at

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8:00 a.m. And I'll wake up to content

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ideas preloaded into my ClickUp YouTube

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idea board. Now, coming back to plugins,

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there are a lot of different apps that

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we could add directly to our GrokBot

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inside of here. You could see that this

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is a marketplace with basically just all

12:17

these apps we can connect to. But let's

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say there is an app that isn't inside of

12:21

this marketplace that you want to

12:23

connect to, and that could be a problem.

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Well, we could use something called the

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Zapier MCP. As you can see, I have this

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configured. And this allows us to

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connect to 9,000 plus different apps

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with just a couple of different clicks.

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Now, I'm going to show you real quickly

12:36

how you could configure this because I

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genuinely think this is going to level

12:39

up the capabilities of your GrokBot

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because of all the different apps you

12:43

can connect to. So, first of all, go to

12:45

the link in the description in order to

12:46

access the Zapier MCP. Make sure to sign

12:49

up for an account. And then once we have

12:50

an account created, we can just come

12:52

here and create an MCP server. So, click

12:55

on create, click MCP servers. Now, the

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cool part is once we actually sign up

12:59

for the Zapier MCP, I could just come to

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new message and click {slash} and

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there's actually a skill inside of

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GrokBot called Zapier setup. So, I just

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click on this and I could click send.

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And now it's going to go and set this up

13:13

for me on autopilot. So, it's now

13:14

showing that I have my Zapier MCP

13:17

installed and connected. And I could

13:18

just tell it to go connect to any of the

13:20

apps that we want to use, and then it

13:22

will do that for me. What it will

13:24

probably do is ask me to authorize it,

13:26

so it will pull up basically the app

13:28

that I want to connect to. I'll have to

13:30

click a button and then go into that

13:31

account and just click authorize. But,

13:33

it's basically that simple in order to

13:35

enable all these different applications.

13:37

Now, there's another cool feature that I

13:38

want to point out right now. And so,

13:40

let's say we are in a conversation with

13:42

a specific agent. For example, I have

13:45

this content bot that I'm talking with

13:47

right now. And I could go ahead and tag

13:49

other bots. So, if I want to tag the

13:51

chief of staff and say, "Hey, I want you

13:53

to check my email, see everything that's

13:55

urgent for me to accomplish right now.

13:57

Um I really want to work on these videos

13:58

over the next couple of days. Let me

14:00

know if you think I have time for it."

14:01

So, obviously as you could see, I'm

14:03

basically tagging one of my team members

14:05

in this chat conversation. So, we could

14:07

do this with any of the different agents

14:09

that we create. And of course, right now

14:11

I only have a couple agents that I've

14:13

pre-configured, but I can imagine this

14:15

will get pretty powerful and we have

14:16

maybe like five to 10 different agents

14:18

for specific things. And it has all this

14:20

context on us because these agents are

14:22

going to be more specialized to do

14:24

different tasks. And now it looks like

14:25

we got a response from our chief of

14:27

staff. So, I click on this, it's now

14:28

going to pull this up. So, the chief of

14:31

staff said, "Check the email and the

14:33

calendar for Brock." Basically, it said,

14:34

"Yes, the video should be the focus for

14:36

the next couple of days because the

14:37

calendar load is light." So, this is

14:39

pretty cool, the fact that we could

14:40

interact between these different agents

14:42

in real time. All right, so at the

14:43

beginning of this video, I promised that

14:45

I'd give you my honest thoughts on this

14:47

after playing around with it. So, let's

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quickly talk about what I like versus

14:50

the things that I really dislike about

14:52

this. As well as I'm going to be posting

14:54

a video in the next couple of days going

14:56

over different use cases of this because

14:58

everything I showed in this video was

15:00

pretty simple and it honestly is pretty

15:02

powerful if you do use it correctly. So,

15:04

first of all, what I did like about this

15:06

is how dead simple it is. I think tools

15:09

like OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, people

15:12

want something like that in their life.

15:14

They see it's really capable, but they

15:15

see it on the internet and they're kind

15:17

of intimidated by it because it's really

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hard to set up and a lot can go wrong if

15:21

you don't do it correctly. Well, this is

15:23

extremely easy. You could download an

15:25

app on your phone to run this. You could

15:26

download the desktop app and it could

15:27

simply go and perform tasks for you.

15:30

Another thing that I do like about this

15:32

is it does genuinely feel like a

15:34

teammate or I guess multiple teammates

15:36

working at the same time. I love that

15:38

you could just message with it like it's

15:39

a friend and it's able to go and perform

15:41

different tasks for you. And then on top

15:43

of that, I absolutely love the idea of

15:45

different bot group chats. The fact that

15:47

our agents can go and work together in

15:49

order to get tasks done. I think it's

15:51

just really cool and it's probably the

15:52

future of how we're going to interact

15:54

with AI over time. Now, let's talk about

15:56

the things I'm not particularly sold on

15:58

at least right now after using this the

16:01

past day. First of all, it does feel

16:03

like a beta. Kind of does feel rough

16:05

around the edges. It just doesn't feel

16:06

very polished. I think that they have a

16:08

lot of improvements they can do with

16:10

this platform. And then having to pay

16:12

$200 a month to use this right now does

16:14

seem like a lot of money. I do think

16:16

there are better alternatives out there

16:18

using something like Claude Co-work or

16:20

ChatGPT work for much cheaper. Now,

16:22

going back to where I was talking about

16:24

how it feels like a beta product. I

16:25

almost feel like they created this

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because they are trying to recreate

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Buzz, which is the platform that Jack

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Dorsey just released a couple of days

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ago. So, in my opinion, I feel like

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that's why it's not super polished

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because they probably rushed to release

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this to take advantage of that attention

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on social media. Next, the last thing

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that I'm not too sold on. I'm honestly

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not sure if I like this or not. I almost

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feel like it is too simple. Like yes, we

16:48

can create skills inside of Grok bot,

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but it's not very easy to sort through

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all of the skills and see everything

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there. It's almost like they're trying

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to make the interface like too simple,

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like we're just chatting over SMS to a

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friend or something, which I guess could

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be good and it's probably the future,

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but it's taking some time for me to get

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used to since I am used to using Claude

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Co-work specifically. Anyways, guys, I

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hope you got some value from this video.

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Make sure to like and subscribe for more

17:10

content like this. And again, I'm going

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to have a video coming out with more use

17:13

cases of how to use Grok bot over the

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coming days. Thanks for staying to the

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end and I will see you in the next

17:19

video. Cheers.

Interactive Summary

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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