Grok Bot Now Uses Claude Opus 5.5 + More (MASSIVE Update)

0:00Grokbot just got a massive update that completely changes the AI agent landscape. Elon just announced that Grokbot is no longer going to be limited to Grok's own models and it's going to start using other top AI models like Claude Opus 5.5. So, this gives Grokbot access to the best model for whatever task you give it and it picks that model for you automatically. And there are three reasons why I think this is such a big deal and the third one is the biggest. There's also a few important things we still don't know and I'm going

0:27to cover those at the end of this video. So, without further ado, let's dive right in. All right, so here's exactly what happened. This morning, Elon posted this on X and I'm going to read it for you word for word and then we'll break this down. Going forward, SpaceX will use the best back-end model for any given task including Claude Opus 5.5,

0:44Midjourney, Suno and other leading APIs. Whatever is most likely to give the best outcome. Now, if you've never used Grokbot before, it's basically an AI agent platform that you can text like a friend or an employee. You can create multiple agents that work together and delegate tasks to specific agents. So, you can text it like an employee. It can log into your tools and keeps working even when your computer's closed. And this platform has been amazing. I've absolutely loved this. I've been using it every single day over the last two months as my main daily driver, but there were some limitations to this. Up until today, it only ran on Grok's own

1:18models and you couldn't pick a different model if you wanted to. Well, now Grokbot is going to look at the task you give it and then send it to whichever AI is best for that specific job. And I think this fixes the one thing that was really holding Grokbot back. So, the first reason this matters is the model itself. Grok's models have always been a step behind or two or three steps behind Claude and ChatGPT and even Elon has said this. A couple of weeks ago, he said in an interview that Grok is not as good as Opus 5.5 and that they'd

1:47probably catch up sometime next year. And so, instead of waiting until next year, he just decided to plug Opus 5.5 and the top leading models right into Grokbot. Now, personally, I think Opus 5.5 is the most powerful model that you can use right now by far, and I've been building some incredible things with it over the last week. But, I personally really like how GrokBot communicates with me. I think it's much more easy to use and beginner-friendly. It honestly feels like I'm texting a coworker or a friend, and it actually remembers how I like to work. So, up until now, I kind of had to choose. I'd go to Claude for

2:20hard stuff like coding or more specific and complex workflows, and then I'd go to GrokBot for all the different admin tasks and everything else that was easier for this model to handle. Now, here's a quick example of what this could look like going forward. Let's say I text my GrokBot and ask it to build me a dashboard that tracks all of my different invoices. I'm still talking to the same agent in the same chat, but behind the scenes, Opus 5.5 could be the one writing the code since it's much better at that. This way, I get the agent that I like talking to and the model I trust with the hard work, which

2:51is Opus 5.5. All right, moving on to the second reason why I think this is such a big deal, and this is that you no longer have to pick a model. Right now, if you want the best results, you kind of have to know which AI is good at what. So, you'd go to Claude for writing and code, then Midjourney for images, and Suno for music, and you get the point. And as you're probably familiar with this, that's a different app and a different subscription for all these different AI tools and platforms. But, the way that Elon worded this in this tweet, GrokBot makes that choice for you. So, you could

3:21ask one bot to write a launch post, make the image for it, and even make a little jingle song to go with it. And then each piece of this specific task goes to each specific model that is best for it. Now, there's also a chance that this might save us some money. If Claude, ChatGPT, and Suno all end up being included in the GrokBot plan, that could be one subscription instead of having to pay for all four. Now, I do want to preface and say that pricing has not been announced yet, so I wouldn't go and cancel anything today, obviously. But, this is something that I'm genuinely

3:50thinking about and excited for going forward in the future. And that brings me to the third reason, which I think is the biggest one, and it's what this means for everybody else. Because in the last couple of months, pretty much every big AI company has launched their own version of Grok Bot. Meta came out with their platform called Muse, which has been taking the world by storm over the last couple of weeks. And then last week, OpenAI launched ChatGPT dots. And I was personally extremely excited to test it out, and so were tons of other people, but it's honestly been extremely underwhelming so far. But here's the

4:22thing that all these have in common. ChatGPT dots runs on OpenAI's models, and Muse runs on Meta's models, which are very limited. So you're kind of betting that the company that built your agent is also the one with the best model, and this changes almost every week when these companies are releasing new models every week. And Grok Bot was the exact same way until today. But I want you to think about what Grok Bot actually is. It's a computer in the cloud that's logged into all of your different tools and runs your routines and scheduled tasks while you sleep. And after this change, the model behind all

4:52of that is just a part that can be swapped out. So when a better model comes out, Grok Bot could just plug it in, and you wouldn't have to change a thing. And if you're anything like me, this will make your life so much easier as you don't constantly have to be switching different platforms. And in my opinion, I think this puts real pressure

5:07on all of the other AI companies. Entropic already has Claude co-work, and I bet they have a bigger version of this coming too by launching a competitor to Grok Bot, Meta Muse, ChatGPT dots, etc. So the big question is whether any of these different AI platforms are going to follow and open up their agents to other models. My guess is they probably will not anytime soon because their models are the thing that they're selling. And this is exactly why I think this is such a big moat going forward for Grok Bot. Now, before you get too excited, there are four things we still don't know, and a couple of these are

5:38really important. The first is when this actually goes live because all Elon said in this tweet was that this was going to be the case going forward. So that could mean today, this week, or could mean a month from now. We don't necessarily know. Hopefully later today we'll get some clarification, but as of right now, we don't know when this is going to go live. The second is whether you get to pick the model yourself, or see which one did the work. The way that this tweet reads is that Grok bot is going to be picking for you. And we also don't know which tasks actually go to which

6:06specific model. How is it making these decisions? So, it's possible that Opus would only get used for the really hard stuff, and everything else will run on Grok models. We just don't know. And if a task comes back wrong, you don't necessarily know which model did that. And And the third is the price. So, right now extra usage on Grok bot is billed by token cost, and Opus is a more expensive model to run than Grok. So, there's a chance your usage doesn't stretch as far when Opus is doing more of your work. We also don't know if every plan is going to get this, or just

6:34the more expensive Grok bot plans. And the fourth big thing here is your data. Your Grok bots are logged into your emails, your files, and all of your other tools that it's working across. So, if a task gets sent to another company's model, some of that information could be going with it. And right now, we don't know if you'll be able to turn that off. I'm going to be testing this the second it shows up in my account, and I'll make a full video on it, because I am extremely excited for this. So, if you enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe for more content like this, and then let me know in the

7:01comments if you think OpenAI and Anthropic and all these other different AI companies are going to follow in Grok bot's shoes. Cheers, and I'll see you in the next video.