Grok Bot dropped today and it’s a bright spot in my otherwise pessimistic AI outlook of late. It’s the first love child of the Cursor and SpaceXAI merger (it really is a merger, even though it’s technically an acquisition). It feels just like Cursor, and has the personality of new X (Benji Taylor’s fingerprints are everywhere).

Just a month ago, commenting on Cursor’s new side chats feature, I tweeted:

Once Cursor builds a harness for general purpose knowledge work, everyone else is fuckin toast. They’re the only AI company with a cohesive product, and over the next couple they’ll start lapping the competition.

I wasn’t expecting to see it happen quite this soon, but I’m not at all surprised it’s been executed so well. I’ve been using Cursor as my daily driver for the last 2 years, with Composer (and lately Grok) as my main models. That combo hits the sweet spot of smart, speedy, and pleasant to deal with. Cursor’s harness is really great, doesn’t require any skills to be effective, and lately has made great use of subagents.

Grok Bot feels exactly the same in my initial use. I created my first agent by asking Grok about to build me a fleet of agents:

Help me create a fleet of agents that can help me launch and grow a product design agency that helps seed to series B b2b SaaS companies improve their onboarding and activation. I follow a lot of what Alex hormozi has to say about offers, and also what Daniel fazio of client ascension has said about ai assisted agencies.

Bobjobs understood the assignment, and spun up 7 additional agents to put under his command.

The main agent then helped me “launch” my agency by summoning the specialist agents to build offers, research my ICP, create lead lists, and more. The handoff is relatively seamless, the main agent will delegate a task, continue doing its own work, and wait for the other agent to report back.

Like in Cursor, you’ll frequently be presented with multiple choice questions to keep the agents on track. They’ll calmly do what they’re asked, and spit out documents as they go to give you durable artifacts of their work.

A distinguishing feature between Grok Bot and every other AI tool I’ve used is that your work with the agents feels durable. Rather than turn-based chats about a single topic, Grok Bot is meant to behave like iMessage or Slack. Conversations are continuous, and not meant to be thrown away when you’ve reached a conclusion.

Agents truly act as coworkers. You can tag them in and out as you need, or spin up new group chats to work together on something specific.

None of this is earth shattering. Some folks have been developing patterns like this over the course of the year. But Grok Bot is the first time I’ve seen this tech put into a polished product that feels like more than a demo.

I’m really, really excited to see what the Cursor and X teams are able to build together. Both companies feel collaborative, and give an MMORPG vibe. Claude and OpenAI, in contrast, very much feel like thousands upon thousands of single player games being played simultaneously.

Anyways, I haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s possible with this product. I’ll leave you with 100 use cases for Grok Bot from Eric at Cursor.