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SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot today, its first general-purpose AI agent product, pitched as a team of always-on AI teammates that sign into your tools and finish real work. But open the checkout flow on SpaceXAI's own page and something doesn't match the branding: every download link, every pricing button, and both paid plan names belong to Cursor, not Grok. Grok Bot is a SpaceXAI product running on Cursor's infrastructure, weeks before the two companies' $60 billion merger has even been confirmed closed.

Grok Bot gives each user one or more AI agents that operate their own cloud computer, sign into the apps and websites a person already uses, and keep working after that person's laptop is closed. You message a Bot the way you'd text a coworker, and it either finishes the job or comes back only when it needs approval. Bots have their own computer and sign into the tools you already use, and they finish jobs end to end, only coming back when something needs your approval.

The pitch is that Grok Bot skips the setup step most agent tools require. Rather than asking a user to build workflows and routines first, Grok Bot is meant to just get a task done once you message it. A bot can also learn by watching: the best way for a Bot to learn a workflow is to have it follow along the next time a person does the job, after which it saves the steps as a routine and runs it on its own.

Multiple bots can run at once, with one acting as a coordinator over specialist bots for different lanes of work, and they can pass tasks between each other in shared threads without a human relaying notes. SpaceXAI describes bots researching sales prospects, drafting outreach, updating CRM records, processing invoices from Gmail, preparing marketing campaigns, reproducing bugs, and managing support queues, examples pulled directly from how the product was used inside the company before release. xAI

Here's the part none of the launch coverage spells out directly: log into SpaceXAI's own Grok Bot page and try to actually get the product, and you're handed off to Cursor at every step.

The macOS, Windows, and Linux installers are hosted at downloads.cursor.com. The enterprise contact form is cursor.com/contact-sales. And the two subscription tiers you can actually buy aren't named after Grok at all — they're called Cursor Ultra and Cursor Premium Teams, priced the same as Cursor's existing developer plans. SpaceXAI is selling a Grok-branded product through a Cursor-branded checkout.

This lines up with reporting from before the launch. Tech publications reported that a general-purpose agent product developed at Cursor under the internal codename "Sand" was slated for rebranding as "Grok Bot," and that Cursor's own brand name would be gradually phased out over the coming months as the two companies integrate. Grok Bot appears to be that product, shipped under a new name while its plumbing, from download servers to sales contact forms to plan pricing, is still entirely Cursor's.

The App Store listing adds a second data point pointing the same direction. According to independent reporting on the launch, the iOS app is listed with Anysphere, Cursor's parent company, as the developer, while the desktop downloads and sales links are hosted by Cursor — even though the product is marketed under the Grok name on SpaceXAI's site.

None of this is happening in a vacuum. SpaceX agreed on June 16 to acquire Anysphere, the developer of Cursor, for $60 billion in stock after the two companies began sharing compute and jointly training AI models, with the transaction expected to close in the third quarter. As of this week, that deal had not formally closed. One financial outlet reported the acquisition could close as early as the following weekend and no later than the end of August, pending final regulatory approval.

So Grok Bot went live to the public running on the acquirer-to-be's infrastructure while the acquisition itself is still pending. That's not unusual for two companies that have been operationally intertwined for months. Cursor and SpaceXAI jointly trained Grok 4.5, which Cursor introduced in July as its first model built for knowledge work outside software engineering, and Grok Bot packages that model strategy into a standalone worker with persistent access to a computer rather than limiting it to a chat window or code editor. Grok 4.5 itself launched July 8 as the two companies' first jointly developed model, positioned as a coding and agentic-work tool that Musk described as an 'Opus-class' model, referencing what was until recently Anthropic's top model family.

Put the three data points together (the branding, the codename leak, and the checkout infrastructure) and the picture is a company operating as one entity in production before the paperwork says it's one entity.

There's no single page that lays out the full Grok Bot access grid, so here's the merged version, pulled from SpaceXAI's own pricing section and cross-checked against the launch coverage.

SpaceXAI announced the release of Grok Bot on Tuesday as an AI tool designed to complete work tasks independently across multiple applications, operating on its own cloud-based computer and returning to users only when approval is needed. Grok Bot launched in beta on Mac and iOS, with Windows and Linux desktop versions also available and Android listed as coming soon; access is initially restricted to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers.

Handing an AI agent login credentials for your inbox, CRM, and vendor accounts is a different level of access than a chatbot ever asked for, and reaction on Hacker News reflected that directly. Commenters raised concerns about data handling by a company under Elon Musk's control, and one linked to an unverified Reddit report alleging a previous SpaceXAI command-line tool uploaded user data to a cloud bucket without clear disclosure. That specific claim hasn't been independently confirmed by any outlet in this roundup, so treat it as an allegation raised by users, not an established fact, but the underlying worry it points to (that a tool with standing access to your accounts needs a much higher trust bar than a chat window) is the real open question the launch doesn't resolve.

On the disclosure side, what does exist is thin. Anysphere's App Store disclosure states the iOS app may collect data linked to a user's identity, including contact information, user content, identifiers, usage data, and diagnostics, though Apple notes those privacy declarations are supplied by the developer and are not independently verified. Cursor's broader platform offers a privacy mode and security assessments, and prevents code data from being used for training when that mode is enabled, but Grok Bot's own launch materials put the immediate emphasis on user approvals and learned routines rather than a detailed data policy.

Is Grok Bot the same thing as the "Sand" project reported earlier this month?
It's not confirmed by name, but the timing and description match closely. A general-purpose agent product developed at Cursor under the codename "Sand" was reported to be headed for a Grok Bot rebrand as part of the wider phase-out of the Cursor name, and Grok Bot's description as a cloud-agent product line built on Cursor's technology fits that reporting.

Has the SpaceX-Cursor acquisition officially closed?
Not as of this launch. The $60 billion stock acquisition was agreed on June 16 with a close expected in the third quarter, and separate reporting placed the likely close date within weeks of early August, pending regulatory approval.

Why does a Grok-branded product use Cursor's download servers and plan names?
SpaceXAI hasn't explained this directly. The most consistent explanation, based on the pending-acquisition timeline and the "Sand" codename reporting, is that the two companies are already running shared infrastructure and simply haven't rebuilt Grok-branded billing and hosting yet.

What does Grok Bot cost if I'm not already a SuperGrok Heavy subscriber?
$200 a month for an individual Cursor Ultra plan, or $120 per seat per month for Cursor Premium Teams, both billed monthly. Enterprise pricing isn't published; those customers go on a waitlist.

Can Grok Bot use apps that don't have an API?
Yes. An agent can navigate websites that lack an API or Model Context Protocol connection, giving it a wider theoretical range than workflow tools that require a supported integration, though that also exposes it to the same changing interfaces and permission boundaries that make browser automation difficult.