Grok Bot Just Dropped... (Cowork Killer?)

0:00 SpaceX just dropped their new AI super agent called Grockbot and everybody on YouTube is just hyping it up. So, I wanted to make a video with my honest thoughts. So, in this video, I'm going

0:09 to break down what it is. I'm going to show you all of the features as well as a few use cases so you can understand how powerful it is. And if you don't know, this is a new product from Cursor,

0:18 which was just bought by SpaceX for $60 billion. And this is a new competitor to Claude Co-work, Chachabt Work, Hermes Agent, and Open Claw. So, by the end of this video, you'll understand how

0:30 capable it is. So, let's dive in. So, I'm going to break down in depth exactly how Grockbot works, but I want to quickly show you what it looks like. So, right here, I have a group chat with two

0:40 different AI agents. I have my content agent and I have my chief of staff inside of a group chat performing different tasks for me based on which agent specializes in these different

0:49 tasks. Then on the lefth hand side, I have all these different chats with my agents that I'm able to interact with on my desktop app, but I could also text it from the app on my phone. And another

0:59 example, which I'm going to show you later in this video, but I have it connected to my ClickUp where a specific agent is going and pulling my email and adding everything to a list inside of my

1:08 ClickUp account so I could see exactly what I need to do for the day and the priority for all the different tasks inside of ClickUp. Now, I want to quickly talk about why I think this is

1:16 really such an important release for us to pay attention to whether or not we switch from whatever agent that we're using, whether that is Claude Code, Claude Co-work, ChatBeT work, or even

1:25 something like Hermes agent or OpenClaw. So, if you haven't been following the news, Space X actually just bought Cursor, which is an IDE platform. Cursor is basically an AI agent platform, which

1:37 was kind of like Claude Code before Claude Code was a thing. And they paid $60 billion for this just a couple of months ago. And so we've kind of been anticipating this new product update

1:47 from both SpaceX but now Cursor since they now own this product. And now with this we have a new AI giant that has just appeared and that is Grockbot. Because now we have SpaceX which merged

1:58 with Cursor and now we have a combination of all these platforms with Grock which is the XAI model from Elon Musk. And this is now merged to a new company called Space XAI. And if I were

2:12 to give a TLDDR on what exactly Grockbot is, I would say it's a team and it's not just a specific singular chatbot. What I mean by this is we could have multiple different bots or agents that are

2:23 orchestrating different conversations with each other. So we could have specific agents for sales or operations or for coding and research. And then we could have a manager agent that is able

2:32 to interact with each of these different agents through things like group chats, which I'm going to show you later in this video in order to accomplish our specific tasks. And the most interesting

2:41 part about this whole release is we don't have to interact with this on our desktop if we don't want to. We can literally pull up the Grockbot app on our phone and text it like we're

2:50 speaking with an actual employee on our team. Now with this we have a new competitor on the block. So before we had things like Claude Co-work, we had chatbt work which just released a couple

2:59 of months ago. We had openclaw and then we even had her agent which has been kind of taking the world by storm right now in the AI space. But now we have Grogbot which can be really powerful if

3:09 you use it correctly. Now there's a really interesting trend that I want to highlight before I dive deeper into what exactly Grockbot is and that is every AI company is making the same pivot. So

3:19 they're taking these specific developer tools and they're turning them into AI employees that anybody even the non-technical people like you and I can use. For example, first of all, we had

3:29 Claude code which is mainly for developers. And then they turned that into cloud co-work which is built for knowledge workers and basically anybody can use this. Then we had codeex which

3:39 is open's version of something like cloud code which is again for developers and not for everyday people. And then they just released chatbt work just about a month ago. And then we had

3:48 cursor which is this IDE developer platform. And if you're not a developer it was really difficult for you to use. Well, now we have Grockbot, which is a very easy way for us to text with

3:57 different agents on our phone or just on our computer. Now, one big key distinction that I need to make right now is that in order to access this as of today, you do need to be either a

4:07 Cursor Ultra user, which is $200 per month, or you need to have Cursor Premium Teams account, which is $120 per seat per month. So, I went ahead, I paid the $200 just so I could review this for

4:18 the video. So, make sure to leave a like and subscribe to this channel if you enjoy this. Next, once we open up the application, we are now going to see this. So, right here it shows your team

4:28 of always on agents that you can give real work to. Then I'm going to click on reopen link here where it's going to open it up in our browser and we simply just need to sign into our account. So,

4:36 go ahead and create one if you don't already have one. Now, I'm going to click on sign in here and then I'm just going to click open Grockbot and it's going to open up our application. Now,

4:44 from here you can see a couple of different things. I went ahead and tested this on my phone and it's automatically synced with my desktop app. Now, I'm going to quickly show you

4:52 how to download this on your phone as well, because this is where this app gets really fun and exciting in my personal opinion. So, I'm on my iPhone. I'm just in the app store. I'm simply

5:00 just going to look up Grockbot. And as you can see right here, I already have it downloaded, but just go ahead and make sure to download this. And then I'm just going to open mine up so you could

5:09 see what this looks like. Now, you can see just like I showed on my desktop before, I have a couple of agents that I've spun up. Um, I have a chief of staff. I have an inbox triage agent. And

5:19 I even have a group chat where both of these agents are interacting with each other. And I could also click this plus button in order to either create a new bot or a new group chat with these

5:28 different bots. All right. So now I'm going to give you a tour of the Grockbot application on the desktop. And it functions very similar on the web app as well. And a key thing I want to note is

5:38 that it functions very simply. I really do think that Cursor and XAI are really trying to make this product as simple to use for everyday people like you and I, which is something I really appreciate

5:49 about it. So, first of all, this is what the platform looks like. On the left, you can see we have a couple of different like group chats or chats that we have with our specific agents. I have

5:59 the ability to create a new agent. Now, I'm going to open up some of these previous agents that I have. So, for example, I have this agent here that is my chief of staff. And what I've done is

6:09 I've configured a few things inside of this. I've connected it to my Google calendar as well as to my Gmail. So, it's able to see everything in regards to like my admin tasks that's going on

6:20 inside of my business. Next up, I have this content bot which I'm setting up to specifically help me with my YouTube videos. So, as you can see right here, I fed it my YouTube channel. It went ahead

6:32 and analyzed, you know, the titles and thumbnails that I use to understand what type of video I want to create. And then, as you can see here, I basically said, "I'm working on this new video and

6:40 I want you to help me with the title and the packaging." So, based on the titles that I've used for my previous videos, it gave me a couple of different ideas here, which I actually think are pretty

6:49 good. And it even gave me a thumbnail direction here. Now, another really cool feature, and it's probably something I'm the most excited about, is the fact that we could have group chats with multiple

6:59 different agents working at the same time. So right here I created this chat and this is my content and my chief of staff group chat. Now these two specific agents are able to work together in

7:12 order to tackle different tasks. So for example, I basically came here and I said I want you to look through my different content ideas that I have stored in ClickUp and then I want you to

7:20 look at everything on my Google calendar as well as inside of my email inbox and then come up with the things that I should prioritize. So, first of all, the chief of staff went and looked through

7:30 my email and my Google calendar because that is specifically what this agent is instructed to do. And then, as you can see here, my chief of staff bot then texted my content bot in order to go and

7:42 find the specific content ideas I was working on with that specific agent. Now, since I connected ClickUp to my Grobot agents, I can now come directly to Grockbot and basically just say,

7:52 "Hey, I want you to go and look inside of my email inbox. And from there, I want you to then add the top priority things to my board inside of ClickUp as well as add specific due dates there so

8:04 I can make sure to accomplish these things over the next couple of days." And so, since this is my inbox triage agent, it has access to my Gmail. So, it's going to go and pull from my actual

8:13 email inbox. And then what it's going to do is add the different tasks that I need to accomplish to my ClickUp. And it will assign the specific people on my team that it needs to in order to get

8:24 this task done. And this is so cool because gone are the days where I need to come in here and manually add a specific task myself. I could just have my agent on Grockbot go and do this for

8:34 me. Now, just like that, a couple of minutes later, went and pulled the different things that I need to do. And it says that it added them to my ClickUp, but let's go ahead and double

8:42 check that it did. Now, if I pull up my ClickUp, it went and automatically found the specific space inside of my workspace that I was supposed to add this to, which is my list right here.

8:52 And then, as you can see, we now have all of these different tasks added along with the due date and the specific priority based on what this agent thought was the most urgent from my

9:02 email inbox. All right, so taking this one step further, as you can see, I'm inside of my content bot chat here. And what I have pulled up is I have a virtual computer which Grockbot is able

9:13 to use. This is a way for Grockbot to go and perform different tasks across like an actual computer. It's not working on my local computer. Instead, it's working in the cloud. So that way I could have

9:23 it go and perform different tasks for me on autopilot without hindering me and being able to use my computer while it's getting those tasks done. So it could spin up multiple virtual browsers just

9:34 like this in order to go and do things. And then, and as you can see below that, I have routines. So, I'm going to show you how quickly it is to build out a routine, which is basically just a

9:43 scheduled task for our bots to go and accomplish for us. So, I'm just going to click create routine. And I could just give this a name. I'm going to call this content scrape. I could add my specific

9:53 instruction. So, let me just add that. Now, I want you to go and scrape my YouTube competitors on YouTube in order to find content ideas every single day. For me, I want it to be in my YouTube

10:03 style. So analyze my YouTube videos to get a get a sense of the types of content I make in order to find winning ideas for me to make videos about every single day. So basically I just give it

10:14 that very basic instruction and I could add a specific trigger. There's a really cool thing that I want to note here. So not only can we add this on a schedule where like every single hour, every

10:23 single day at a specific point in time this will run, but we could also add a trigger. So, let's say if somebody in Slack sends us a message, it can then automatically trigger a routine in order

10:35 to go and accomplish a task for us. As of right now, there's only a couple of different triggers that we can do. So, we have Slack messages, a specific GitHub event, Teams message, a linear

10:44 issue, and a couple of other different things. I'd assume that they're probably going to add a lot more different apps and actions here. So that way we could create kind of like rudimentary

10:52 automations instead of having these routines run on a scheduled task which we've seen with cloud co-work and chatbt work for example. Now for this specific use case I want this to be on a schedule

11:03 every single day. So let's just click on this. I'm going to come over here. I'm going to make this 8 a.m. So now every single day it's going to go and scrape content as you can see right here. Now,

11:12 I'm just going to come here and say for that routine that we just created, I want you to not only scrape content, but I want you to find five winning content ideas every single day, and then I want

11:22 you to add those to my board inside of ClickUp and assign me to that task along with the urgency. All right, so now a couple of minutes later, it went ahead and scraped my YouTube competitors. It

11:33 found a couple of different winning topics here. And obviously, I could refine this a bit more. This is the first time that I've ran this. I'd need to actually give like my real

11:41 competitors that I wanted to scrape in order to make this perfect, but I just wanted to show exactly how this would work in practice. And then if I come back to ClickUp, you can now see that

11:50 these video ideas were now added to my ClickUp board along with it assigned me as well as it assigned me as the person to perform this task. And then it added the priority level here. And if I click

12:01 on routines, you can now see that this is going to run every single day at 8 a.m. and I'll wake up to content ideas preloaded into my ClickUp YouTube idea board. Now, coming back to plugins,

12:11 there are a lot of different apps that we could add directly to our Grobot inside of here. You could see that this is a marketplace with basically just all these apps we can connect to. But let's

12:19 say there is an app that isn't inside of this marketplace that you want to connect to and that could be a problem. Well, we could use something called the Zapier MCP. As you can see, I have this

12:29 configured. And this allows us to connect to 9,000 plus different apps with just a couple of different clicks. Now, I'm going to show you real quickly how you could configure this because I

12:38 genuinely think this is going to level up the capabilities of your Grockbot because of all the different apps you can connect to. So, first of all, go to the link in the description in order to

12:46 access a zap your MCP. Make sure to sign up for an account. And then once we have an account created, we can just come here and create an MCP server. So, click on create. Click MCP servers. Now, the

12:58 cool part is once we actually sign up for the Zapier MCP, I could just come to new message and click slash. And there's actually a skill inside of Grockbot called Zapier setup. So, I just click on

13:09 this and I could click send. And now it's going to go and set this up for me on autopilot. So, it's now showing that I have my Zapier MCP installed and connected. And I can just tell it to go

13:19 connect to any of the apps that we want to use. And then it will do that for me. What it will probably do is ask me to authorize it. So, it will pull up basically the app that I want to connect

13:29 to. I'll have to click a button and then go into that account and just click authorize. But it's basically that simple in order to enable all these different applications. Now, there's

13:37 another cool feature that I want to point out right now. And so, let's say we are in a conversation with a specific agent. For example, I have this content bot that I'm talking with right now. And

13:48 I could go ahead and tag other bots. So, if I want to tag the chief of staff and say, "Hey, I want you to check my email, see everything that's urgent for me to accomplish right now. Um, I really want

13:58 to work on these videos over the next couple of days. Let me know if you think I have time for it." So, obviously, as you can see, I'm basically tagging one of my team members in this chat

14:06 conversation. So, we could do this with any of the different agents that we create. And of course, right now, I only have a couple agents that I've preconfigured, but I can imagine this

14:15 will get pretty powerful. And we have maybe like 5 to 10 different agents for specific things. and it has all this context on us because these agents are going to be more specialized to do

14:24 different tasks. And now it looks like we got a response from our chief of staff. So I click on this. It's now going to pull this up. So the chief of staff said, "Check the email and the

14:33 calendar for Brock." Basically said, "Yes, the video should be the focus for the next couple of days because the calendar load is light." So this is pretty cool. The fact that we could

14:41 interact between these different agents in real time. All right, so at the beginning of this video, I promised that I'd give you my honest thoughts on this after playing around with it. So, let's

14:49 quickly talk about what I like versus the things I really dislike about this. As well as I'm going to be posting a video in the next couple of days going over different use cases of this because

14:58 everything I showed in this video was pretty simple and it honestly is pretty powerful if you do use it correctly. So, first of all, what I did like about this is how dead simple it is. I think tools

15:10 like OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, people want something like that in their life. They see it's really capable, but they see it on the internet and they're kind of intimidated by it because it's really

15:19 hard to set up and a lot can go wrong if you don't do it correctly. Well, this is extremely easy. You could download an app on your phone to run this. You could download the desktop app and it could

15:28 simply go and perform tasks for you. Another thing that I do like about this is it does genuinely feel like a teammate or I guess multiple teammates working at the same time. I love that

15:38 you could just message with it like it's a friend and it's able to go and perform different tasks for you. And then on top of that, I absolutely love the idea of different bot group chats. The fact that

15:47 our agents can go and work together in order to get tasks done, I think it's just really cool and it's probably the future of how we're going to interact with AI over time. Now, let's talk about

15:56 the things I'm not particularly sold on, at least right now after using this the past day. First of all, it does feel like a beta. Kind of does feel rough around the edges. It just doesn't feel

16:06 very polished. I think that they have a lot of improvements they can do with this platform. And then having to pay $200 a month to use this right now does seem like a lot of money. I do think

16:16 there are better alternatives out there using something like claude co-work or chatbt work for much cheaper. Now going back to where I was talking about how it feels like a beta product. I almost feel

16:26 like they created this because they are trying to recreate Buzz which is a platform that Jack Dorsey just released a couple of days ago. So, in my opinion, I feel like that's why it's not super

16:36 polished because they probably rushed to release this to take advantage of that attention on social media. Next, the last thing that I'm not too sold on, I'm honestly not sure if I like this or not.

16:45 I almost feel like it is too simple. Like, yes, we can create skills inside of Grockbot, but it's not very easy to sort through all the skills and see everything there. It's almost like

16:54 they're trying to make the interface like too simple, like we're just chatting over SMS to a friend or something, which I guess could be good and it's probably the future, but it's

17:02 taking some time for me to get used to since I am used to using Claude Co-work specifically. Anyways guys, I hope you got some value from this video. Make sure to like and subscribe for more

17:10 content like this. And again, I'm going to have a video coming out with more use cases of how to use Grockbot over the coming days. Thanks for saying the end and I will see you in the next video.

17:19 Cheers.