This New AI From SpaceX Is The Future (First Look)

We just got something seriously new. Grokbot. If you haven't heard about this yet, it's a new project from SpaceX AI. From AllPlayers. They acquired Cursor recently and now they built this new bot that is supposed to be the most consumer and user-friendly agentic application. That's at least my take on this. It's basically like a messages application, but you're talking to different agents. And they can work together and they can connect to a bunch of things. In short, they're trying to do what Hermes, Hermes, whatever you want to call it, or OpenClaw have been doing for the past 6 months with a lot of technicalities and headaches involved. And now they're trying to bring this to the consumer. Okay, so I'm gonna do something that I haven't done in a while, which is a first look video. This thing came out today. I heard a bunch about it. I read a bunch about it. And now I'm going to go ahead and try it for the first time together with you and compare it to my existing OpenClaw system, which is wild. Like, I have a hard time recommending OpenClaw because I keep like working with it every single day. But it just keeps, you know, there's these, all these problems, technical problems, goes down, restart, model changes, sometimes it overspends. Anyway, this is user-friendly. And it's amazing. So look at that GrokBot. It's macOS only now. You can try it out for a week, I think, on the free account. I just signed up so you can see here it's already ready to go. But I just want to show you the product first. So it's this interface where you can basically interact with these different agents right here. And I thought this was surprising that nobody else has done this before. That's the surprising part to me because, hey, if I briefly— and I guess I'm going to be comparing it to both OpenClaw on one side and ChatGPT on the other side.. But if I look at ChatGPT or Claude, like it looks a particular kind of way, right? Like you have the sidebar and you kind of work in here and that's that, right? It's not really that you kind of like mix different chats and stuff. Whereas if I look at my OpenClaw setup, usually I use it through Telegram. I'm just going to pull it over here for you. And you can see that this is in a completely different form. It's my different agents and kind of groups live within here. And then I hand off work between Alfredo 1 to Alfredo 2. I have son of Alfredo on a completely separate machine. I have a third Alfredo, all of these. I can work in like 10 threads at the same time, have them collaborate, move context back and forth. It shares a certain memory, all of it. ChatGPT has none of that. Like the work product is powerful. But if I talk in this chat, if it's not saved to memories, well, it forgets. And if I want to borrow something from a chat down here, well, there's no way of doing that. I need to go in there and copy paste it and find it. Whereas in my Open Claw, I can kind of just ask and get results. Okay, so enough comparison. Let's have a look at what this can actually do. But I just wanted to explain to you that it has this basic interface like Telegram or Messages or WhatsApp, like any chat application. And then you have basically teammates. That's the whole frame that you're looking at from. So you can start with one bot, but then you add multiple bots and then you can have them do things on a schedule. You know, basic agentic functionality.. But in a package and with a level of capability that looks so, so promising. Pricing is this. And now, you know, let's get into it. You know, $200 a month is basically the plan. You need Cursor Ultra to get it. But hey, you know, if you're on a Mac, you can download it today on an Apple Silicon machine like I have right now, or you just follow along with me. That's why I'm making this video, because I figured many people won't be downloading and trying this. I really wanted to get my hands on this. So let's full screen this. And have a look at what we got. I basically just logged in. I had to give it my credit card, but there's a free plan that you can have for 7 days. That's what I'm on right now. I logged in with my Google Workspace account, which has my calendar and my Gmail too. And now I'm setting up my first bot. It just asked me, hey, what kind of icon do you want? And what kind of name do you want to give it? And here we are. That's, that's, we're just getting started. So hey, let's have a look. Hey Igor, Good to meet you. What do you want, mostly want me for? Day-to-day workspace stuff. Okay, so we're going to aim at kind of a day-to-day work assistant, not coding, not creative tasks, just, hey, take the admin work from me reliably, like not kind of, but like really, like I'm going to be looking at calendar and email related tasks here. Okay, so it has a question-based onboarding. I love that. Which should I connect first? Let's do just Gmail and Calendar. That's fine. I logged in with my Workspace account. I wonder if it can use that just like that. But I see one thing in here, which is plugins. Honestly, the minimalism of this thing is impressive. I really, really like that, I have to say. So it's pulling this up now. Add both. Sure. Like, what else do we have in here? There's basically the chat on the left. You can add like new bots. There's plugins, there's my account. And there we go. Already we have these two connectors. I'll have to authorize this quick authorization. Sure. And then one more. Authorize this one. And that's basically the setup process. I mean, guys, I spent like 2 minutes before recording this video of like downloading it and entering my credit card. Here we go. Authorization complete. Beautiful. So now we can get to it, right? Want to try Gmail now or keep setting up? What's— I don't know what's unread urgent. Let's have a look. So this is my, you know, account that I do use. So now I wonder what it's going to find here. I hope it's not anything that we shouldn't be showing. I don't think I'm working on anything that shouldn't even be on this YouTube channel. But there we go. It's kind of working. And in parallel, I want to explore the interface. So top right, we have a little— ooh, ooh, it wants to access my microphone. I'm going to give it permission. So this is where we can record. I read about this. So you can basically record certain workflows and teach the bot and then have it execute those, call it routines. Pretty nice. Let's see what we got. We got some Emails here. Yeah, beautiful. Some projects we're working on right now. Also noise in Nepal, Zoom meetings. All right. That's a good start. So it has access to my Gmail. It has access to my calendar. Pretty basic stuff. Now these routines piqued my curiosity. So let's try this. Let's open the bot. And basically this is what you need to know. Every bot has a virtual machine of their own and this is the bot's computer. Okay. So you can think of it as if the bot had a standalone Mac Mini that has, you know, a Google Chrome browser. I could click, boom, and I could do things as the bot. Obviously, if I go somewhere, like, it doesn't have an account, right? So if I open these apps, you see I'm not signed in. What else we got? Uh, file system and a terminal. Okay, so super bare bones, but this is the machine of the bot. So I could now minimize this here in the top right. And then I could say, let's try teach it a task. So how about create a routine? I'm going to name this a test routine 1. Instructions. What should it do? Well, how about create a folder within it, new text file that contains information on today's S&P 500. And that's kind of it. When to run on a schedule. You could— ah, this is really nice. I love that you can trigger it with Slack messages, Teams messages. That's amazing. So we're just going to do a schedule. We're going to do every day at, let's say, I don't know, 1 AM. Perfect. Um, just overnight. And let's do a test run. Let's see how this behaves. So we're assigning this to our bot, right? So as I told you, like every bot has a computer associated with it, what we saw right there. And right now we're using that computer to run this test routine that is going to be performing. Now this is not super different from ChatGPT, right? Inside of ChatGPT, again, I told you I want to draw these comparisons. Inside of ChatGPT, you have these scheduled tasks, right? So if you go in here, you see scheduled tasks here on the right. And if I select those, you can set up different things. I'm just creating videos around that for short 3-minute videos on the channel, by the way, that describe these. But basically it's the same idea, but you don't really have the access to like a virtual— like it runs on a server by itself, but it doesn't give you the ability to, you know, really use a computer. For that, you would need to go into the ChatGPT desktop application and you would need to start using Codex where you can also record workflows. But all of a sudden you have, you know, chat over here, work over here. And you have Codex over here, it starts getting a bit confusing. And context management and passing context and memory between all of those is just not a thing. I think that's a big thing for people to realize. Like, I realize a lot of you will be here like, okay, what's the difference between this and Codex? I'm, you know, using Codex or Cowork or, or Cloud Code. Why should I be using this? Well, I think it's the fact that the memory management here, this is meant to collaborate, right? So I have my S&P 500 document here. Have a quick look. Click that. There you go. It closed here, -0.3%. All right. We got the information for today. That was pretty simple. Um, and now I could go back out and I see my first routine that this bot number 1 will run. And I think here's kind of the interesting thing and what I'm really curious about, like how does it manage the context? How does it work in between different apps? I think the answer to that is we shall find out. Because we will be creating my second bot, new bot. Hey Igor, good to meet you. Yeah, nice to meet you too. Bot number 2, it looks like a little, what do you call them, onigiri, a little onigiri. Yeah, anybody got any Japanese fans, any Japan fans out there going out into the 7-Elevens eating onigiris every day for breakfast just like I was when I spent 3 weeks there last year? Okay, that's off topic, but that was, that That was the best time. Gosh, I need to return this spring. What do you mainly want me around for? Okay, so this guy, hmm, is gonna be a life admin type of guy, or how about a research and writing? I like that, research and writing. So this guy, let's say, let's give him a writing task, like write me a morning report, right? Now we haven't connected to anything else yet. I think the one button that remains unexplored is, settings down here in the plugins. But let's just say work docs and briefs. Yes. And then what I'm curious about is like how easily can it pull the context from the other bot without me handing it over, right? So in other words, this bot works on this topic and then I set another 5 bots to work on other topics. I kind of cluster it by topics. And then I want one bot to look at all these other bots and then pull it together and get me a daily brief, right? Like that would be an amazing thing in terms of context management if you could just pull from all of these different chats. Where do you usually live? I don't know. In other Grok bots. Guys, I can't be vocal enough by how much I think that this is kind of an interface that just works because I've been using it for months. Like OpenClaw did change my life, but I have a hard time like teaching it because like I, It's all I do all day, every day. I interact with this stuff and there's just so much. It's just messy. It's just messy. Anyway, this seems cleaner and I like that. I'm very hopeful. How should I work with this other bots? I don't know, draft from their notes, I guess. All right, so let's have a look. So this is going to be kind of a big moment for me. I want to see if this works. When you draft, how should it sound? Whatever, clear and direct. Now enough, enough questions now. What has it been like? 5? Ask Bot 1 for context. Yes. But I'll just say we're good for now because I want to ask manually. Okay, so sounds good. Whenever you— okay, okay. So give me a daily brief from all other bots we have from our— like, from— give me a daily brief based on what we did with other bots today. Simple. So the big test that we've been, you know, gearing up to for the past 2 minutes— can it do that? It messaged bot number 1. So this is the first time we interact in between. It messaged bot number 1, and now bot number 1— see, it's saying here, sent one text file. See, see that? So bot 1 responded And now it's fetching the context from there because we needed it. So this is so powerful. Imagine like all of your chats talking to each other, each other. Not that primitive, primitive memories function where it's like, oh, I guess like this random fact about Igor Pogany should be useful in the future. No, like literally looking in there. Look at that. It got, it got it. It did it. It got the emails. It got the SMP. Oh. Mio dio, this is incredibile. Okay, okay, so this is, this is big. Look, let me give you— give it a thumbs up. I like it. It's just like Telegram. So cool. Um, okay, and then I guess you could do like threads within there. Nice. Where you could like answer to the thing. Okay, okay, okay. So do you see the potential? Do you see the potential of setting up your different scheduled tasks within different bots and then communicating together? Like you could set a research bot Like, hmm, okay, so let's explore a little more. I love this. This is, this is a big milestone for sure. But let's have a look. So new bot, what else can we do? We can pin it. Okay, easy. We can edit the profile, copy conversation ID, edit the profile. That's an interesting one, right? So new bot, title, description, notifications. That's it. That's all we got for now. So this is in— remember on their sites, they stated that this is early beta. It's not even beta, it's early beta. Okay. So they're just getting started here. But look at that. You have an expense manager with routines. You have a talent scout that works on all the talent. Okay. An inbox manager that manages your inbox and then a chief that kind of, I would guess, does the morning briefing. Yeah. He talks to all the other bots. He also has a scheduled morning briefing. Offsite crew. So it got info from this bot, info from that bot, and they just work together like a team. So this is cool. So this is honestly, this doesn't mean you should stop using ChatGPT. I personally, I love ChatGPT or Claude both. I'm mostly Claude actually. But I just, I use that day to day to answer questions, do things. But when it comes to like pushing big work projects forward, gosh, do I default to something like Cowork or OpenClaw, where I can like manage the context and get longer tasks done. I create plans, I execute on them. Oftentimes they have 10, 15 phases. For stuff like that, for bigger projects where communication is needed, it's not just like a one-off thing with like maybe 2, 3 phases. That you do in chat, that's fine. For longer standing stuff, that's where you want to move to Cowork or Work. Or then if you're building things, Claude Code or Codex. And if you're setting up like a business OS, then I would recommend like OpenClaw or Hermes. But this is really basically bringing the capabilities from OpenClaw and Hermes of like this memory management and memory sharing to a consumer-friendly level where it's as simple as chat. That's what this is. Now, sure, the depth of the features here is limited, early beta, but just this ability to set these, I'm a fan. Let's have a look at plugins. Okay. Ooh, we have Granola. That's amazing. You can put a little pull in your transcripts, Slack. It could be, you know, summarizing all the messages you're getting every day. I'm gonna be playing here and I'm gonna try to recreate some things that I have in OpenClaw. And it's not just daily briefings. Like, Like in OpenClaw, I built a lot of things where it's tools for the team and workflows and cron jobs that power the team. But in here, like, this is— I wonder, like, you could imagine a future where— okay, we'll dream in a second here, okay, to round out the video. I just want to check out the settings here to finish. Okay, nothing crazy here. Usage and billing. Oh, I used my trial 85. Okay. So I— so you see, you can send a few messages, try it out on a free plan, and then you need to upgrade to the $200 plan. That makes sense. Grokbot. I mean, it's literally running cloud computers to do this, right? So I get it. Okay. So to round this out, let's dream for a second. Where could this go? Well, I think one thing that is so, so clear to me is that this is going to become an application where you're not just going to be able to talk to your own Grokbots. But you're gonna have a Teams account, right? And your teammates are gonna have their bots. And then if you're working on a project, and let's say you're working with 5 teammates, well, all the Grok bots will be able to collab. And as you're in a meeting, the Grok bot will be listening. Like, we do this already. We have a Granola meeting note-taker in the meeting, and then I have Alfredo running over here. And then I can tell it to like, hey, take the transcript, and I move it over because it literally has it open on its screen and it can just boom boom bring it over. And I can work in the meeting with my goddamn foot pedal that I have down here that allows me to— I talked about that in a recent video. I just love it so much. Check it out if you're confused by what I'm talking about. I press the foot pedal and now I can dictate and now it appears. There it is. So, you know, I'm in a meeting and then with the foot pedal, I just dictate what I want Alfredo to do and then it grabs the context from the live meeting transcript that's happening. It searches like I don't have to look for the context. It looks for my entire context vault, for my entire memory engine that I have, the project memory, but also the Obsidian file vault that is linked to each other. If that doesn't mean anything to you, just— I had to build it pretty manually and set it up so that different groups have different pockets of context. And then I have details on our different products really specced out. I just like built this whole intricate context system. And basically, if I say something, it can go and access All of it. It's not like ChatGPT where it's like, oh, it has, I don't know, a dozen memories on you or a few dozen. No, it has like thousands of pages and all the transcripts from the past year in the entire company. And I can just like direct it and it can intelligently find it. It's next level stuff, but it takes a lot of maintenance and it's all I do and I have help. Okay. This brings that to a consumer. Okay. So let's, let's land this plane and like kind of summarize what this is really. It's capabilities that remember beyond the chat, beyond a certain session in a consumer product. It's the ability to spawn, I don't know, 10 bots with their own computers who go off and do things and do work for you and collaborate on work for you in an interface that is as easy as chat. I would expect collaborating with other people's Grok bots to be really simple very soon. I would expect this connecting to more and more tools and a whole app store of different preset things that like, there's going to be app store of bots, right? Now they have plugins, but it's going to be like, hey, if you connect your Gmail and your calendar and your Slack, like you can get a daily brief from this bot that like comes in a certain form. That's going to be the most basic one. But then people are going to discover all the different things you can do just like they did with skills. But instead of skills, it's going to evolve to a bot that uses skills and prompts and shares memory and can run by itself and has this entire scaffolding around it, what you would call a harness, which goes way beyond chat. Already ChatGPT Work is kind of ChatGPT with this support, right? It plans, it gets all of these other tools to do things. This takes it a level further because it has its own computer. It can do things on a schedule, which we already have. It can collaborate with other bots. And the usage on this will be huge. I mean, it's $200 plan is what you got beyond a few minutes of usage. So all of that in one package means AI is going to be working for you and you're going to be talking to it like you would to, you know, a bunch of friends.. And then the next phase is predicting what you need and getting a fancy Jarvis-like interface. All right. I hope this was helpful. This was a first look. This is my first impression of Grokbot. I really think this interface works because, well, as I stated, I've been using this interface and it works and I'm just excited about it. Go ahead and give it a shot if you want, you know, free plan on macOS only. And let me know what you think in the comments below. All right. My name is Igor Pogany and I will see you very soon.