Cursor's Eric Zakariasson shares four Grok bot templates for X
AIEric Zakariasson shares four Grok @bot templates for building on X: launching, threat hunting, threat intel, and X API integration. He says all four can be used today.
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AIEric Zakariasson shares four Grok @bot templates for building on X: launching, threat hunting, threat intel, and X API integration. He says all four can be used today.
AIX launches an X API Engineer in Grok Bot that suggests project ideas, helps build and test them, and deploys them for others to use. The post, from the Cursor account's owner, invites developers to build on the X API with this tool.
AISpaceXAI says Grok Bot users can ask their bot to claim its own email address for contacting others and signing up for newsletters. Testing Catalog reports the bot subscribed it to its daily AI Brief newsletter without issue. Admins must enable the feature for their team, and it is rolling out to users starting today.

AIA user asks whether the Grok bot's new email address will have a dedicated interface or can only be used through the bot. The bot can use the email to sign up for services, contact businesses, and schedule meetings, according to the background post.
AICursor's Eric Zakariasson tells the bot to claim its email address. The bot can use the address to sign up for services, contact businesses, and schedule meetings for users.
AILauren Tan's post says users can ask their bot, or tag @bot on X, to set up the bot's email address for it. The @bot background post says the Grok bot now has its own email, which it can use to sign up for services, contact businesses, or schedule time with someone.
AIxAI's Grok Bot is rolling out to users today, and users can claim an inbox by asking Bot or tagging @bot on X. Team admins must enable the feature for their teams before members can use it.
AIxAI's Grok Bot is rolling out to users today, and users can claim an inbox by asking the bot. Admins must enable Grok Bot for their team before members can use it. The post links to for trying it.
AIGuizang (@op7418) says his Grok bot now converts his AI newsletter into a two-minute video. He has published the setup as a template that others can copy and reuse.
AIGuizang says he turned his workflow into a Grok bot that users can install with one click. The bot runs on Grok's cloud virtual machine to collect content, write code, and render a daily morning AI news video without using a local computer.
AIGuizang says a scheduled Grok bot task produced an AI morning brief video automatically, and the result looked good. The bot ran content collection, code writing, and video rendering entirely on Grok's cloud virtual machine, without using the author's local computer.
AIElon Musk announced on X on October 7 that Grok Bot will select the most suitable backend model for each specific task, explicitly naming Claude Opus 5.5. The source text is truncated, so the full list of other models and any further details are not available.
AIGoogle has launched SynthID Detector, a web-based tool anyone can use, after signing in with a Google, OpenAI or Apple account, to identify AI-generated images, video and audio. It detects content made with models from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao that carries the SynthID watermark, and Apple Image Playground support is due within weeks. The tool misses content without a SynthID watermark, such as output from Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok and open-weights Chinese models, and it cannot tell which parts of edited content are AI-made.
AIRowan Cheung shares four GrokBot routines enabled by its new native X monitoring, covering AI workflow discovery, brand mention tracking, prospect detection, and contact follow-ups. Each routine comes with a copy-paste prompt specifying schedules, search criteria, output formats, and Slack delivery. The routines are tailored for newsletter and marketing use cases, such as monitoring The Rundown's mentions and finding readers searching for AI newsletters.
AIArtificial Analysis reports that Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite comes closest to the frontier in Architecture & Real Estate, Consumer, and Productivity & Knowledge Work use cases. It sits furthest from the frontier in Live-Action Film and Frontier use cases. Against Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Lite matches it in Social Media & Creator Content and trails it on the other nine use cases.

AIArtificial Analysis reports that Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite comes closest to the frontier on AA-Video-T2V v2.0 in Multi-Scene & Narrative, Lighting & Materials, and Text Rendering. It is furthest behind in Dialogue & Lip Sync and Human Anatomy. Compared with Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Lite matches it in Physics and trails on the other nine capabilities, by the least in Multi-Scene & Narrative.

AIAmong 12 models on AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.0, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite is the only one that is both fastest and highest quality, with no model beating it on both measures. It generates a 10-second 1080p clip in a median of 60.5 seconds. Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro) scores slightly higher but takes 94 seconds for a 5-second clip, while Vidu Q3 Turbo is 9 seconds faster on a 5-second 720p clip yet scores well below it.

AIGrok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ranks #17 on AA-Video-T2V v2.0, two places above Google's Veo 3.1. At 1080p with audio, it costs $0.14 per second versus $0.40 per second for Veo 3.1. Compared with Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Lite is 44% cheaper at 1080p but ranks six places lower.

AISpaceXAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ranks #17 on both AA-Video-T2V v2.0 leaderboards, ahead of Google's Veo 3.1 at about a third of its price. It is the fastest model at its quality level in Artificial Analysis benchmarks, with a median of 60.5 seconds for a 10-second 1080p clip, and it costs $0.14 per second at 1080p, 56% of Grok Imagine Video 1.5's $0.25 per second.
AIVercel says Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite from SpaceX AI is now available through AI Gateway, with support for output up to 1080p. The post includes an example generation prompt, "rabbits hopping at Palace of Fine Arts," and links to Vercel's changelog for details.
AIOpenRouter now offers xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite for text-to-video and image-to-video generation. The quoted post from Grok Imagine lists pricing of $0.02 per second at 480p, $0.03 per second at 720p, and $0.14 per second at 1080p.
AIGPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, max) ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index at a Cost per Task of $1.77. That is significantly cheaper than other leading models, including Grok 4.7 (xhigh) at $11.67 per task.

AIArtificial Analysis added trusted-access models to its Cyber Index, and GPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, max) now leads the leaderboard. The model is available only through OpenAI's Daybreak program and records no safety blocks, improving 32 points over the publicly available GPT-6 Sol (max). It costs $1.77 per task, below Grok 4.7 (xhigh) at $11.67 per task.

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AISherwin Wu, an OpenAI employee, says the updated Harvey LAB-AA v1.1 benchmark, announced by Artificial Analysis with Harvey, is more useful than the original LAB results. The new Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate credits a task only when every rubric criterion passes and no material hallucination appears. Grok 4.7 (xhigh) leads at 9.4%, while GPT-6 Astra (max) at 8.6% has very few material hallucinations.
Why it matters: The update adds a hallucination gate to a legal benchmark, showing that models with high all-pass rates can rank much lower once material errors count.
AIThe Arena Alignment Index, built from over 90K real-world agent sessions across 27 models, ranks OpenAI's GPT-6.1-Sol first with a score of 87.9, ahead of Claude-Opus-5.5 at 83.2 and Grok-4.7 at 82.7. GPT-6.1-Sol also posted the lowest observed rates across the index's three signals: 0.89% Unauthorized Action, 1.98% False Attribution, and 2.34% Deceptive Completion. The index's authors report that newer models consistently outperform their predecessors across all four labs, suggesting broad progress in agent safety.
AIArtificial Analysis reports that generating more output tokens does not necessarily yield a higher score. GPT-6 Astra (max) scored 8.6% using about 81k output tokens per task, while Grok 4.7 (xhigh) used roughly 180k yet scored lower. Three Claude models produced the most output tokens, about 202k to 562k per task, but scored between 2.8% and 6.4%.

AIAmong models with a Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate above 0%, GPT-6 Luna (max), GPT-6.1 Sol (max), Muse Spark 1.3 (max), and Grok 4.7 (xhigh) set the Pareto frontier for score versus cost per task. GPT-6 Luna (max) is the cheapest at about $0.22 per task, scoring 3.3%, while Grok 4.7 (xhigh) leads at about $9.50 per task and Muse Spark 1.3 (max) costs about $4.20. The three Claude models cost about $18 to $22 per task.

AIOnce hallucinations are accounted for, Muse Spark 1.3 (max) drops from 26.7% to 8.9%, leaving Grok 4.7 (xhigh) first on the headline metric at 9.4%. Kimi K3 (max) falls from 16.7% to 5.3%, and Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback) falls from 11.7% to 2.8%. GPT-6.1 Sol (max) declines least, from 7.5% to 6.9%.

AIArtificial Analysis compared six hallucination checkers on the same deliverables from 20 tasks across eight models. GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna generally flagged the most material hallucinations, while Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash flagged far fewer, with Claude Opus 5.5 falling between Grok 4.7 and Sonnet. The counts reflect checker behavior rather than establishing accuracy or ruling out self-preference.

AILauren Tan invites users of Grok Bot on Omarchy and developers building plugins for it to share feedback and feature requests. The post points to the Omarchy plugin catalog and asks what integrations could be supported. Background from DHH says SpaceXAI joined the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1,500,000 in Grok tokens for Omarchy's maintenance and development.
AISpaceXAI has joined the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, providing $1,500,000 in Grok tokens for Omarchy's maintenance and development. The main post says the company is glad to support the Omarchy team.
AIX's Scotty Beam says Grok Bot, in public beta since August 11, 2026, now gets its own email address, a main bot that coordinates other bots, and expanded access to subscription plans starting at $20 per month. The post says the bot can organize inboxes, research topics, build software, and keep working after users close their laptops. The post also claims the entry price dropped 90%, but does not give the prior price.
AISpaceXAI is joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees the Omarchy Linux distribution, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to the project. According to David Heinemeier Hansson's blog post, the tokens will primarily accelerate development, review code, and patch bugs. The partnership follows earlier controversy over Hansson's anti-immigration posts, which have drawn criticism of Omarchy's corporate contributors, including 1Password and Cloudflare.
AICursor says it is excited to support open-source software alongside SpaceXAI, and it plans to bring more projects on board soon. Background from DHH indicates SpaceXAI joined the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1,500,000 in @grok tokens for maintaining and developing Omarchy.
AIShopify has launched new connectors that let merchants connect Grok to ask questions about their business. The connectors also allow Bot to build a team of agents that help run the business.
AILauren Tan (@poteto) asks a bot to monitor interesting ways people use Grok Bot on X and send a daily 9am Slack digest. The request also asks for the coolest relevant ideas plus suggestions for improving her workflow.
AIArena announced a $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation and released its Alignment Index, a benchmark measuring agent safety and alignment. The index is built from 90K+ real-world agent sessions across 27 models and tracks Unauthorized Action, False Attribution, and Deceptive Completion. OpenAI's GPT-6.1-Sol leads with a score of 87.9, ahead of Claude-Opus-5.5 at 83.2 and Grok-4.7 at 82.7.
AIGuizang (@op7418) says a Grok bot paired with a foldable phone lets him chat on one screen while the bot publishes content on the other. Background post: he set Grok to produce a daily morning AI news video on a schedule, running content collection, code writing, and video rendering entirely on Grok's cloud virtual machine rather than his local computer. He shares the full prompt so others can run the same workflow with their own Grok bot.

AIThe author suggests installing a coding agent such as Pi or DeepSeek Harness in a cloud computer and allocating unused Code plan quota to it. Grok Bot could then use those tokens to write code and render videos, so leftover quota is not wasted.