xAI has launched Grok Bot, a new app for Mac and iPhone that runs a team of always-on AI agents, each with its own computer in the cloud. You give a bot a task in plain chat, and it signs into your apps and websites, does the work, and only comes back when it needs your approval. The early beta went live on August 11 for Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, with Android coming later.
This is also the first big product to come out of the SpaceX-Cursor tie-up. SpaceX, which folded xAI into itself earlier this year, agreed in June to buy Cursor’s maker Anysphere for $60 billion, and Grok Bot is bundled with both Grok and Cursor subscriptions while the deal heads toward closing.
Agents that keep working after you close your Mac
The pitch is simple: instead of a chatbot that suggests steps, each Grok Bot gets a dedicated cloud computer and does the steps itself. Because the work happens in the cloud, jobs keep running when your MacBook lid is closed or you’re away from your desk. You can fire off a task from the iPhone app and check the result later.
A few things stand out from xAI’s announcement:
- Bots sign into your existing apps and websites, including ones without an API, though xAI hasn’t detailed how that authentication works.
- You can run several bots in parallel, and one bot can manage specialist bots for different jobs.
- Bots can join group chats to coordinate work, split tasks, and escalate decisions to you.
- They learn by watching how you work, save those procedures as routines, and repeat them on their own.
xAI says its own teams have been using the bots for CRM cleanup, sales research, invoice processing, email drafts, and bug reproduction. The demos look like real delegation rather than autocomplete, but this is an early beta, and handing an AI agent your logins is a trust exercise xAI still has to earn.
Who can try it, and what it costs
Access is limited to the most expensive tiers right now. The beta is open to SuperGrok Heavy ($300 per month), Cursor Ultra ($200 per month), and Cursor Teams Premium ($120 per user per month) subscribers, who can get started at x.ai/bot. Businesses can join a waitlist.
On Apple platforms, that means dedicated Grok Bot apps for macOS and iOS, separate from the regular Grok app on your iPhone. Windows gets a desktop app too, while Linux users work through the terminal. There’s no word yet on whether the iOS app will land on the App Store or stay behind xAI’s own distribution.
Elon Musk says the rollout won’t stay this narrow for long. He posted that xAI will widen the beta once the basic issues are fixed, alongside the release of Grok 4.6 later this week.
Grok Bot lands in a crowded race to put agents on your desktop. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent already drives a virtual computer to finish multi-step tasks, and Google is pushing Gemini Spark as a 24/7 agent for your apps. xAI’s twist is giving every user a fleet of cloud machines instead of one sandboxed session, and pricing it, for now, like a product for people whose time is worth $300 a month.
