[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":154},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-article-\u002Fblog\u002Fgrok-bot-explained":3,"blog-surround-\u002Fblog\u002Fgrok-bot-explained":149},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"canonical":133,"date":134,"description":135,"extension":136,"featured":137,"image":138,"meta":139,"navigation":140,"ogImage":138,"path":141,"provider":133,"published":140,"seo":142,"stem":143,"tags":144,"url":133,"__hash__":148},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fgrok-bot-explained.md","Grok Bot Explained: Your Bots Get a Cloud Computer, Browser & Email",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":123},"minimark",[9,13,16,20,25,28,31,34,41,45,48,51,54,60,64,67,70,73,77,80,83,86,89,95,99,102,105,109,120],[10,11,12],"p",{},"At the weekend I showed Grok Bot to some family and friends. They were blown away, but they were also like, \"what the hell is Grok Bot? What are you talking about?\" Nobody had heard of it. Everybody had heard of ChatGPT, though, and practically all of them are quite happily using it and know what it does.",[10,14,15],{},"So why are people not hearing about this? I still use ChatGPT and it's great. I don't mean to say Grok Bot is better, but it's very, very different. So I made a short video to show what it is, and this is the written version.",[17,18],"lite-youtube",{"videoid":19,"playlabel":5},"-1gHB4hM1ic",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"the-big-difference-your-bots-get-a-computer-in-the-cloud","The big difference: your bots get a computer in the cloud",[10,26,27],{},"This is the part most people don't know. Your Grok Bot account comes with its own computer in the cloud, and all your bots share it. It has a browser, a desktop, files, everything you'd expect.",[10,29,30],{},"In the app you can wake that computer up and look at it. You don't have to. Most of the time you'll never go in there, unless the bot asks you to take over and do something. But I wanted you to see how it works, because that's where the value is.",[10,32,33],{},"When I press take control, I'm in control. I can open Google Chrome, scroll around and click around just like on my own laptop. You don't need to do that, but this is the computer your bots use.",[10,35,36],{},[37,38],"img",{"alt":39,"src":40},"Grok Bot cloud computer desktop with Google Chrome open after taking control","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fgrok-bot-explained\u002F01-take-control-chrome-0350.png",[21,42,44],{"id":43},"whats-on-the-computer","What's on the computer",[10,46,47],{},"It has a file manager. If you look in there one day you'll see everything the bots have been working with: images, files, a lot of stuff. You can delete things too, so if you thought something on there shouldn't be there, you can just go in and delete it.",[10,49,50],{},"There's also a terminal. That's for people who know how to code, and you'll probably never use it, but it's how the bot runs scripts.",[10,52,53],{},"So the bot goes off and does things on your Grok Bot computer, then tells you what it found, or how it logged in, or what it bought. That's basically how it works.",[10,55,56],{},[37,57],{"alt":58,"src":59},"File manager on the Grok Bot cloud computer showing files the bots have been working with","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fgrok-bot-explained\u002F02-file-manager-0430.png",[21,61,63],{"id":62},"creating-a-bot-and-setting-up-routines","Creating a bot and setting up routines",[10,65,66],{},"Creating a bot is simple. You create a new bot and it starts asking you a couple of things, and you can change its name very easily. I've got a lot of bots going, with my chief of staff bot at the top.",[10,68,69],{},"There's also a library with the pages, files and apps your bots make. And you can set up routines. One of mine gives me a report every morning: emails I need to look into, what's on my calendar, reminders for the day. It's really, really helpful. You can look at routines in the app, but most of the time you set it all up just by asking in the chat.",[10,71,72],{},"You can also copy a bot and share it with someone else in your family, so they can have the same bot for whatever tasks they need.",[21,74,76],{"id":75},"watching-it-use-the-browser","Watching it use the browser",[10,78,79],{},"Now for the real thing. The bot comes with some ideas to try: find a restaurant table for tonight, compare flights from Palma to Madrid, find a product and add it to a cart, or look up an event on Luma. Be careful with the restaurant one, because it will actually find you a table, and I wasn't going to a restaurant that night.",[10,81,82],{},"So I asked it to look up upcoming Grok Bot events on Luma. It said it was on it and opened Luma in the browser on the Grok Bot computer. I clicked in to spy on it, just watching, not taking control.",[10,84,85],{},"I didn't have to find out where any of these events were. It just got it done. It found free online sessions where you can learn about Grok Bot, plus two in-person Grok Bot events in Austin, so if you're in Austin, go. There was one called SpaceXAI Catalysts: Grok Bot for Engineers that I really want to go to. It even gave me a screenshot in case I wanted to look into it more.",[10,87,88],{},"Again, you don't have to watch any of this. I was only showing you what happens behind the scenes. Normally you'd keep it closed and just carry on chatting.",[10,90,91],{},[37,92],{"alt":93,"src":94},"Grok Bot browser showing Luma event search results for upcoming Grok Bot sessions","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fgrok-bot-explained\u002F03-luma-events-0825.png",[21,96,98],{"id":97},"your-account-even-has-its-own-email","Your account even has its own email",[10,100,101],{},"Then it asked if I wanted it to register me for the webinar with my Grok Bot email. Your Grok Bot account gets one email address that all your bots use, and you can just ask how to get one. So I said yes, register me. It registered and sent me the link, and it'll be on my calendar. My own inbox stays so much cleaner.",[10,103,104],{},"That was a very simple demo, but it takes away the need to go and search, find, click, register and fill out forms. It's just super simple.",[21,106,108],{"id":107},"try-it-yourself","Try it yourself",[10,110,111,112,119],{},"There's a hell of a lot more it can do, and I'll make more short videos rather than one long one, so follow me on ",[113,114,118],"a",{"href":115,"rel":116},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002F@DebbieOBrien",[117],"nofollow","YouTube",".",[10,121,122],{},"My one piece of advice: give it a play and just ask it to do something real, like book a table at a restaurant. Go ahead and have fun. I'm telling you, Grok Bot is going to blow your mind with all the things you can do with it. Happy Grok Botting!",{"title":124,"searchDepth":125,"depth":125,"links":126},"",2,[127,128,129,130,131,132],{"id":23,"depth":125,"text":24},{"id":43,"depth":125,"text":44},{"id":62,"depth":125,"text":63},{"id":75,"depth":125,"text":76},{"id":97,"depth":125,"text":98},{"id":107,"depth":125,"text":108},null,"2026-10-14","Your Grok Bot account comes with a cloud computer, browser and email that all your bots share. 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