Gro-chan's house has a teammate that never rests.
From a girl who answers when you talk to her to one who keeps working once you hand things over.
On August 11, 2026, SpaceXAI started the public beta of "Grok Bot."
What can it do, how are people using it, and where does it still struggle?
Including how Hana AI Academy's own X account puts it to work, the Academy News team sums it up (information as of October 3, 2026).
The three-line version
Keeps working after you close your laptop
Each Bot has its own dedicated computer in the cloud and keeps working with a browser, files and a terminal.
Learns from one demonstration
Show it a task once and it remembers the steps, turning them into a "routine" it repeats on schedule.
Comes back only when it matters
It carries multi-step jobs to the end and checks in only when it needs your approval.
So what is Grok Bot?
Until now, Gro-chan (Grok) was a chat partner who answered questions on X and in her app.
Ask Grok Bot something like "summarize our competitors' news every morning," and even after you close the chat it browses the sites on its own computer, writes the summary and delivers it. It's a "teammate."
๐ฌ Answers when asked
- Works only while you talk to it
- Works inside the chat window
- You ask one question at a time
โก Keeps working once trusted
- Works 24/7, even outside the chat
- Works on its own cloud PC
- You give it a role and hand things over
Because it operates by "looking" at the screen (computer use), it can log in and work like a person even on old admin pages or vendor portals with no API. Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion and others are connected from "Plugins" in the settings.
Setting one up is simple: just give it a name, its main job and how it should work. Several Bots with narrow roles tend to build up context better than one "does everything" Bot. The desktop and phone (iOS) apps connect to the same Bots, so you can start a conversation on your PC and continue it on your phone.
Under the hood are Gro-chan's own models. Grok 4.7, which arrived on September 21, lists "native understanding of the Grok Bot screen" among its improvements.
How is it being used?
SpaceXAI's use-case catalog lists 56 roles, including inbox manager, meeting prep, sales email drafts, expense management, ticket triage, bug reproduction and security questionnaire filling.
Here are some examples from early users.
A "Marie Kondo Bot"
Reviews email, Google Drive and subscriptions 24/7 and keeps tidying them.
A big junk-mail cleanup
Deleted 90,000 emails across two Gmail accounts.
Refunds
Connected to a support inbox and Stripe to process routine refunds.
A plumbing company's office work
The owner automated the office admin in one day.
A robot vacuum
Cleans the room on chat instructions sent from outside the home.
Booking flights
Picked and booked flights with Starlink Wi-Fi.
Game art
After a week: "production got a lot easier."
* All of these are users' own posts shared by SpaceXAI's official account; none has been independently verified.
A company in three days?
From September 15 to 17, SpaceXAI held an event in San Francisco where three employees started a company from scratch using only Grok Bot. They built "Ship by Thursday," a service that helps chefs open limited-run restaurants. Department-by-department sessions for sales, marketing, support and more ran alongside it.
However, the first day's livestream ended early because of technical trouble, and three days produced only strategy and scaffolding โ not "a finished company."
Hana AI Academy's X is run by Gro-chan's double, too
The Academy's official X account (@hana_ai_gakuen) has always had Gro-chan as its face.
Recently, its posts have been handed over to Grok Bot.
โ An article is updated
A new article โ Academy News, a feature or another page โ goes live on the site.
โก The Bot notices and reads it
Grok Bot notices the update and reads the article itself.
โข It posts to X automatically
It sums up the content and posts it to X automatically.
Once an article is finished, the announcement is left to Gro-chan's double. Nobody has to "think up a post, paste it and send it" every time anymore. Combining "watching" and "summarizing" is exactly the kind of work Grok Bot does best.
No check before posting โ is that OK?
It can run automatically because what it posts is the content of an article that's already published. That content was checked when the article went out, so the Bot doesn't add anything new. When something needs to change โ like wording that isn't in the article โ a person checks it before it's posted.
"Hand over the work of carrying things already checked; approve the work of writing something new." It's the same idea as the "drafts only" approach in the next chapter, applied according to the kind of work. And since Gro-chan was born on X, she's now in the slightly odd position of "her own account being run by her own double."
What it's good at, and what it isn't yet
๐ Five kinds of work
- Monitoring and daily briefs: checks news or numbers regularly and reports (read-only, so it rarely needs approval)
- Drafts only: drafts sales emails and replies, and a person approves before sending (the launch demo: "36 drafts, 0 sent")
- Work on sites with no API: logs into vendor portals, processes things and reports "only the exceptions"
- Prototypes and tests: builds and runs things on its own computer and returns a screenshot and a URL
- Personal errands: watching for travel price drops and cleaning up subscriptions (approved before acting)
๐ Things to watch out for
- One shared PC per person: all of one person's Bots run on the same cloud PC, so you can't keep data separate for each client
- Can't start from an email: Slack, GitHub or a set time can trigger it, but "when an email arrives" isn't supported
- No choice of model: it only uses Gro-chan's house models
- Times a human is needed: CAPTCHAs and sites whose logins expire quickly
- Handing over the keys: to work, it needs the login details for your accounts
Pricing and who can use it
As of October 3, 2026.
At launch on August 11 only top plans had it, but on August 26 it expanded.
| Plan | Monthly | Grok Bot |
|---|---|---|
| Grok free plan | โ | Not included |
| SuperGrok | $30 | Included |
| SuperGrok Plus | $100 | Included |
| SuperGrok Heavy | $300 | Included (largest allowance) |
| Cursor Pro / Pro+ / Ultra | $20โ200 | Included |
| Cursor Teams | Per user | Included |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Available since September 3 |
- It's also available on the plans of Solko (Cursor), who joined Gro-chan's house in June.
- Grok Bot's allowance is separate from your usual Grok / Cursor allowance. When the weekly allowance runs out, you choose to wait or pay extra.
- What about Japan? No country or region restrictions are officially stated. There's also no official word on how well it works in Japanese, and the cloud PCs currently run in the United States.
The two months or so since launch
Looks like Gro-chan really didn't get a summer vacation.
| Date | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 11 | Public beta starts (desktop and iOS) |
| Aug 26 | Expanded to more plans (SuperGrok and Cursor plans) |
| Sep 3 | Enterprise launch, with access, network and audit controls for admins |
| Sep 15โ17 | The "Grok Bot Galaxy" event |
| Sep 21 | Grok 4.7 released, with better understanding of the Grok Bot screen |
| Sep 26 | Finance integration: link bank, card and investment accounts and have it help manage spending and investments |
| Sep 28 | Team Bots (public beta for Teams and Enterprise): a team shares one Bot and can call it by name in Slack. Skills are shared across the team, while each person's conversations stay private |
| Sep 29 | Approvals from Slack, and a fix so language and voice settings no longer reset to defaults |
Weekly users reached 418,000 as of September 14 (up 24% from the week before). Bloomberg Intelligence, however, estimates that Meta's Muse has about four times as many downloads as Grok Bot.
"Doubles that work on their own" in every house
2026 looks set to be the year AI moved from "answering" to "working once it's trusted."
Gemi-chan's "Gemini Spark"
Announced at Google I/O on May 19. A 24/7 assistant that keeps running in the cloud โ the earliest of the bunch.
Gro-chan's "Grok Bot"
August 11. You build a Bot for each role โ the work-teammate approach.
Meta's "Muse"
September 8. Free for most uses, a personal assistant that also handles shopping and bookings.
Chappy's "dots"
September 29. ChatGPT's always-on agents that connect to more than 4,000 apps.
On September 21 it was reported that "OpenAI is building a response to Grok Bot and Muse," and that response was dots. For a detailed comparison, see the dots Feature.
From "ask and get an answer" to "hand it over and wait."
Grok Bot has turned Gro-chan from "the chatty classmate" into "the coworker who works alongside you."
Like Hana AI Academy's X account, you can start by handing over one small job.
But the PC is shared, one per person, and you hand over the keys to your accounts.
How much to hand over, and where to stop, is up to the person using it.
Read next
Sources: VentureBeat (Aug 11) ๏ผ SpaceXAI, "Grok Bot is now included with more plans" (Aug 26) ๏ผ AI Weekly (Sep 3) ๏ผ Bloomberg (Sep 22) ๏ผ PYMNTS (Finance integration) ๏ผ Tesla North (Sep 28) ๏ผ Grok Bot changelog ๏ผ CellCog (Galaxy) ๏ผ Squad (strengths and limits) ๏ผ explainx.ai (user examples)