SpaceXAI says new AI agents can work alongside each other and even have their own AI manager.
We need bots, but do they need us? Not a whole lot, if Grok Bot can do everything it purportedly can. SpaceXAI introduced the new AI agent platform this week and says it can do it all — message each other, do group chats, share work and even answer to an AI boss.
Grok Bot was jointly developed by SpaceXAI and Cursor, an AI development company that SpaceX is acquiring for $60 billion. Grok Bot is not to be confused with Grok, which is an AI chatbot that can answer questions and generate images, videos and code. Grok Bot is designed to be a team of AI agents that can help with work tasks and projects.
AI agents differ from AI assistants in that they can work autonomously and proactively to execute projects. Assistants can make dinner reservations for you; agents can help run a restaurant. Professional services firm Deloitte estimates that 75% of companies plan to incorporate AI agent systems into their operations by 2028.
Grok Bot is only the latest AI agent to come along. Predecessors include OpenClaw, Sai by Simular, Claude Computer Use, Manus, OpenAI Operator, NanoClaw and Hermes Agent. These options vary by what they can do, how secure they are and how complicated they are to use.
Customers can create one or more AI agents that use their own cloud-based computer — not the customer’s — and can access the apps, websites and email inboxes the customer so designates. The agents can execute jobs from beginning to end and will contact the customer only if an approval is needed, SpaceXAI said.
Customers can message the AI agents by phone or computer to hand off a project or discuss an ongoing one. The company said Grok Bot can “remember conversations, learn how you like things done and get sharper the more you work together.”
SpaceXAI said Grok Bot doesn’t require the customer to set up workflows or routines — “simply message a Bot to take on a task, and it gets it done.”
In its announcement, SpaceXAI said employees have been using Grok Bot in-house. The company said that bots have helped with sales, recruiting, processing invoices and implementing bug fixes.
SpaceXAI said Grok Bot agents can work in concert, with each handling a separate operation — email, expenses, recruiting, bug fixes and operations. The agents can send messages to each other, pass work off if need be and assign ownership of tasks.
Customers can also create an agent to act as “chief of staff” to manage the other agents.
SpaceXAI said customers can train Grok Bot agents by having them follow along and watch their workflow to learn the steps and processes the customer uses. After learning the routines, the agents can fly solo the next time “without re-explaining it again,” the company said.
Grok Bot becomes more proactive and self-directed over time, completing necessary work before the customer even requests it, SpaceXAI says.
Grok Bot, like other AI agents, must be reliable from start to finish, or else trust in these “co-workers” will disappear, says Uttara M. Ananthakrishnan, an assistant professor in the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
“The biggest issue pops up with multi-step jobs,” Ananthakrishnan told CNET. “If a bot gets through the first two steps of a process and then flakes out, the person using it has to start all over. If a task needs approvals from five different people in different departments, a bot is going to be terrible at it.”
