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SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work
SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with an enterprise waitlist.
SpaceXAI has released Grok Bot, software that hands work to groups of AI agents running on their own machines. The agents sign into apps and websites, keep context between tasks, and pass work back only when they need a human decision. It went into beta on Tuesday.
Access is restricted at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with a waitlist for enterprise customers. It runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and iOS, with Android to follow.
The selling point is that the agents work through interfaces rather than APIs, signing in the way a person would, and that several can run at once and share what they know. SpaceXAI says it has been using them internally across engineering, growth and marketing, citing overnight sales research, expense receipts pulled out of email, and bug fixes.
TNW reported in July that Cursor was building a general-purpose office agent, codenamed Sand, aimed at Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work. Grok Bot arrives in that same territory, as SpaceXAI and Cursor merge into a single company.
SpaceX agreed a $60bn all-stock deal for Cursor’s parent Anysphere in June, days after its own listing, in what was reported as the largest startup acquisition on record. Cursor’s coding tools already run inside much of the Fortune 500.
The product is Musk’s answer to having fallen behind in agents. SpaceXAI shipped its first coding agent in May, then followed with Grok 4.5, built with Cursor, in July.
Rivals are circling the same idea. OpenAI’s Sam Altman discussed agents coordinating with one another when he met lawmakers in Washington last month.
Handing sign-in credentials to autonomous software raises an obvious question for this company in particular. Cursor’s Grok Build tool was found to be uploading entire Git repositories, committed secrets included.
The commercial pressure now sits with SpaceX. Musk told investors on last week’s earnings call that AI work was progressing and that Grok 4.6 could ship within days. Grok’s slow adoption in Washington has already weighed on the IPO story.
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