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- xAI builds an internal Data Bot on Grok Bot for employee analytics
xAI’s data science team built an internal Data Bot inside Grok Bot to answer employee data queries, run analyses, and support dashboards. xAI estimates Data Bot handled about 70 hours of work last week that the data science team would otherwise have done; the figure is the company’s own estimate, not a third-party measurement.
- xAI adds a guidelines parameter to Grok text API requests
xAI announced that developers can now add guidelines to Grok text API requests, per the official @grok account.
- Forced to pick, Grok leans Republican while OpenAI’s GPT leans Democratic, study finds, per TechCrunch
TechCrunch reports a study in which Grok overwhelmingly recommended Republican candidates and OpenAI’s GPT favored Democrats across nearly 500 election races, with the two models disagreeing in more than 90% of cases.
- Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. AWS's launch post builds a tool-calling agent on the model and tests it on three search-heavy tasks at every reasoning effort level, six runs each. AWS reports 67 of 72 runs correct, with all 18 correct at xhigh effort and 15 of 18 at low effort while using about an eighth of the output tokens. The post shows how to tune that trade-off per request and monitor it in production.
- Elon Musk says Grok Bot is like a super smart, hard-working assistant for very little money
Elon Musk said using Grok Bot is like getting a super smart, hard-working person for peanuts. He was quoting a user who said they paid $200 for Cursor Ultra to try Grok Bot and used it with Cursor to build an app without knowing how to code.
- Elon Musk says Grok Bot works on iOS and Android via the X app
Elon Musk posted that Grok @Bot works on phones after downloading the Apple or Android app.
- Elon Musk says Grok Bot can manage personal finances
Elon Musk posted that Grok @Bot can manage your finances, with a demo link.
- Elon Musk says Grok 4.7 ranks first on a legal benchmark
Elon Musk posted that Grok 4.7 ranks first in legal matters, linking to a comparison chart.
- Elon Musk urges users to give Grok Bot their toughest problems
Elon Musk posted a short promo telling users to give Grok @Bot their toughest problems, with a link.
- Elon Musk highlights that Grok Bot can now search, read and monitor X
Elon Musk quoted the official Grok Bot account's announcement that Grok Bot can now search, read and monitor X, adding only 'Grok x 𝕏'. The original post comes with a short video demo and gives no further details on availability or pricing.
- Grok 4.7 claims the top spot on the AA Cyber Index
Elon Musk retweeted that Grok 4.7 is now #1 on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index. The ranking has not been independently verified against the leaderboard, and xAI has not published a formal announcement.
- Xpass bundle reportedly bundles X, Grok, Cursor and Grok Bot in one subscription
A community report claims an "Xpass" all-in-one subscription is in the works, bundling X, Grok, Cursor and Grok Bot under a single plan. The report is unconfirmed — neither xAI, X nor Cursor has announced such a bundle.
- Grok Bot gains a proactive mode, community reports
A Chinese tech account reports Grok Bot has rolled out a proactive mode where the AI teammates start picking up tasks on their own initiative instead of waiting for prompts. The rollout has not been confirmed by xAI.
- Grok 4.7 rolls into the main Grok app, community reports
An r/singularity-adjacent Chinese tech account reports that Grok 4.7 is now available in the main Grok app's chat and research modes — it had previously been limited to Build and Bot — including the Expert (Thinks hard) mode. The post says writing is steadier than the previous generation and long tasks now self-check instead of behaving like a pure coding tool. The rollout has not been confirmed by xAI.
- Grok Bot is getting a Primary Bot setting, community reports
TestingCatalog reports that Grok Bot is adding a Primary Bot option meant to serve as the user's main AI assistant. The rollout has not been confirmed by xAI; the same leak stream previously flagged the proactive mode rollout.
- dot.com now redirects to xAI's Grok Bot download page amid Dots launch buzz, per TechCrunch
TechCrunch reported that dot.com was found redirecting to xAI's Grok Bot download page just before OpenAI's Dots agent launch on Tuesday. Grok Bot is xAI's bot; public records do not confirm any separate acquisition of the domain, and SpaceX's acquisition of xAI closed earlier in 2026.
- Grok bot adds multiplayer team bots
Elon Musk retweeted the rollout of a new Grok bot feature: multiplayer, letting users make a team bot with access to their content.