Grok Bot gives AI agents their own computer and your logins. Two months in, here's what has changed.

What launched

"Today we're launching Grok Bot, AI teammates you can give real work to," the company announced on August 11. Each bot, it says, has its own computer in the cloud, signs into "the tools you already use," and works "across apps, inboxes, and more" — 24 hours a day. Engadget reports that all of an account's bots share one cloud computer, and names Gmail, LinkedIn and Salesforce among the tools they sign into.

The bots are meant to learn by watching. Show one a task once, the company says, and it "saves your workflow as a routine, takes your corrections, and runs it on its own next time." You can run several in parallel, "with one to manage the others," and bots "can independently message each other and share context in threads."

The company says Grok Bot started as an internal prototype. Engadget reports it was originally a Cursor project, codenamed "Sand."

Who makes it now

The company behind Grok Bot has changed shape twice this year. SpaceX acquired xAI on February 2, 2026, in an all-stock deal that valued the combined company at $1.25 trillion. The AI business was renamed SpaceXAI, then — after Elon Musk said on October 4 he would make the change, following a federal executive order favoring the term "super intelligence" — SpaceX Super Intelligence, or SpaceXSI. Grok Bot's launch page now carries that name.

Three days after Grok Bot launched, the company completed its acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding tool, at a $60 billion implied value, paid in SpaceX stock. "Today, we have officially closed our acquisition," Cursor posted on August 14. Grok Bot is available through both Grok and Cursor subscriptions.

Two months of changes

1. Aug 11Early beta, initially for the top SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium plans, according to 9to5Mac.
2. Aug 14Cursor acquisition closes.
3. Aug 21Wider access: SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+ and Cursor Teams subscribers, plus a limited free trial for everyone else.
4. Early SepiPad and Android, and enterprise support. 9to5Mac reports it "initially required a $300/month subscription" and now works with the $20-a-month Cursor Pro plan.
5. Oct 7Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 — 9to5Mac reports Grok Bot "can now use" it.

Two of these deserve a caution. Engadget's September 20 guide lists the eligible plans without Cursor Pro, so check before you subscribe for it. And the Claude report rests on a single post on X; neither company is quoted, and it isn't clear whether Claude is now the default or one option among several.

Questions to ask before you hand over your logins

An agent that signs in as you can do anything you can. The launch page describes bots that "only come back when something needs your approval," and one employee testimonial on it goes further: "I just fully trust it to run forever ... without me verifying and reviewing." Before giving any agent that kind of reach, it's worth getting clear answers to a few questions:

• Which accounts can each bot reach? And can you limit one bot to one tool?
• Which actions wait for you? Sending email, posting publicly and spending money are different from drafting.
• Where do your credentials live? The bots work from a shared cloud computer.
• What gets logged? When a bot gets something wrong, you'll want to see exactly what it did.

Grok Bot's launch page doesn't answer these, which doesn't mean the answers don't exist — but they belong in the evaluation, not after it.