Grok Bot vs Muse vs Dots vs Anthropic Duet

0:00Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel. My name is Lucas Montano, you're watching the Lucas Montano channel, and today I'm not in my usual environment, so excuse the audio, the video will be a bit different. I'm traveling with my parents, with my family, and we're going to talk about Grok bot. I'm also traveling with my brother, and with my wonderful wife, who are behind the bed helping me tell you that you need to stay hydrated. But let's go. In today's video, I want to talk about bots, man. Grok bot. Claude, what the difference is between them, the new one from Cloud, and also about what's happening today, with all these

0:36cybersecurity issues, right? PHP, everyone who had systems running with PHP had to take their systems down. We also had Node.js, we had several things being hacked. Sorry, I have to start getting ready because hotel checkout is soon, but there's a lot being hacked today. Uh, which reminds me to warn you that everything you have access to in

0:59terms of models today is old, okay? Everything you have access to in models is old. Companies and labs already have more powerful models. And I can tell you that one of the things they are currently struggling with is how to provide access to better models without exposing so much vulnerability, okay? What I mean by this is that there are already better models than the ones we're using to code, but they are too, let's say, dangerous to be released. So , these hackings you're seeing, I don't know if it's just another one of those marketing strategies or some test by some lab happening. I think it's even

1:44something I was going to talk to Sara about. Honey, we need to buy, withdraw cash, and maybe buy some gold, or something, because with what's going on , what if they hack the banks? I saw one recently, Revolut, a British bank, went offline, and then there are the real-life cases of what happens when

2:06you lose access to your bank, right? Lots of grim testimonials on the internet, like that, you know? People were in need and didn't have access to their money because today everything is digital. Yeah. But imagine the chaos it was with the hacking of the supermarket over in the Netherlands. Another thing, Sara and I went to the market and it looked like the apocalypse, you know? They hacked the markets in the Netherlands and Belgium, right? The chain, one of the chains, and they messed with the thermostatic system of the freezers, right? And a lot of stuff spoiled and so on. So, different times may be coming in the next few months. I think

2:47it's a good idea to withdraw cash, okay ? Having said that, we are increasingly giving bots access to our lives, right? And that's what I want to show you today, how I'm using the Grok bot along with Grok in the Tesla to set up an entire travel itinerary that I'm doing with the family of, I don't know, 2000 km. We've been at it since the Netherlands, we went to France, visited

3:12the Disney parks in France, in Paris. Then we went up to Switzerland, Austria , and now we're going to enter Italy. It's quite a trip we're taking, traveling a lot by car. So Grok has been helping us a lot to book a bunch of things. I'll talk to you more throughout the day. There we go, we arrived here at the

3:35first tourist destination of the day. Me with the company jacket. And speaking of the company, this castle here, they say it was the castle that inspired Cinderella's castle at Disney, and we've come here to visit the inside now. But first I want to tell you, if you're building a digital product, or if you already sell a product or service online, you need a way to charge for your services, to handle checkout, right? You spend so much time developing your product, then you should spend time on go-to-market, but the way you handle the checkout experience for your product is also important, right? So Appmax is a partner here on the channel, they offer

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5:04right, several currencies. So, you can sell from Brazil with your company in Brazil, without bureaucracy, selling in dollars, selling in euros on the internet, and they take care of all that for you, of all your payment infrastructure. All right? I will leave the link here in the description. So, if you are creating a product or thinking about which payment method solution to accept or use for your digital service, consider Appmax. All right? Now about the Grok Bot. Grok got us into a jam. This is one of the dangers of us starting to put our lives

5:36in the hands of these bots, right? Yesterday we were coming here and we wanted to grab a coffee on the way, and I asked Grok to add a stop to the car's route, a coffee shop that wouldn't deviate from the path. Man, it turned out we lost an hour of our lives, because it put a coffee shop that was inside a city, there was terrible traffic, and we ended up blindly following what it said. So that was one of the things that happened with Grok on this trip that wasn't so good. I'll show you in practice now how I use it as soon as I get back to the car. And I

6:19also want to compare it with Meta's Muse, with OpenAI's bot, right, which they also released, and with Anthropic's, which was released on a waitlist in the United States this week . Now comparing, man, the bots, okay? Claude Duet, which is the one Anthropic released recently, from what I've seen, it's good for something more corporate, okay? More work where you need to have judgment of some criteria and all that,

6:51or building dashboards, it's very good. I saw some reviews of people using it for material briefings, to sync with inbox, calendar, but very much with this more commercial intent, you understand? And from what I saw, it's included in Anthropic's Pro plan, which is that plan for $. And I think companies are going to start using this

7:14as one of the features to replace chat. I see, for example, in Grok, right, Elon Musk, the folks at X AI, they just merged the Grok bot with the Grok app. So, at the beginning they launched them kind of separately, but I feel they will eventually converge, and at some point, the usage from your subscription will likely also be deducted from the tokens the bot uses. And that’s where we lose a bit of control, right? The bot is great to use because you delegate things to it, and it gets them done. For example, right now we’re heading to another tourist spot and we

7:55haven’t bought tickets yet, have we? So I asked Grok to hop on the internet; it has its own computer, right? I already left it logged in with some info, and it’s going to check if the place still has space, tickets, how much it costs, and all that. It can even make the reservation and pay since I’ve already saved my card in the

8:15browser it uses on its computer, right? So we keep delegating things, but you lose control over both token usage and access to information, right? So you end up trusting it even more. This is only possible thanks to the new capabilities of the models. We are gradually delegating more and more things. Then we have OpenAI Operator. So, Operator is included in the monthly plan, which is the Pro 100. It’s basically their premium access, it comes in the bundle there, right? About OpenAI Operator, something I’ve seen people talking about a lot is that the conversations in Operator don’t count toward your ChatGPT limit, right? So if you use ChatGPT for coding, you have

9:03your limit, but the conversations you have in Operator aren't consumed from that plan of yours yet. As for Anthropic’s new release, from what I saw they launched this week, it does count against your usage, your limit, and your plan, okay? XAI, man, an interesting thing, I told you it’s available at the entry price of the X subscription of 30 a month. So, with XAI now, they’ve linked everything together, right? The X subscription, the Grok subscription, the Cursor subscription—it’s all linked to a single account, and you can use the Grok bot for 30 a month. In my case, we ended up subscribing to Grok Super, that one for $, because you have to be

9:45on that plan for the Grok bot to communicate with the Grok in the Tesla, which I’m going to show you now how we’re using it on the trip. So, to use it on the Tesla, you need to subscribe to Grok Super. And, in fact, I even had the Cursor subscription, because when SpaceX bought Cursor, I signed up for the plan. I bought that Cursor plan because it was really worth it, as it gave me access to Grokbot and Cursor, but through that plan, the Tesla's Grok didn't have access to Grokbot's MCP, right? So, for those who

10:23have a Tesla, here is that observation. Meta's Metamuse, right, was also released. It comes with a premium model , more transactions, more subscriptions . So there you have a bot that is free, right? And that is something Mark Zuckerberg has been saying a lot to people, right? That he wants, in this case, for everyone to have access to this super intelligence. So, he has been selling this idea for quite a while. Well, that is the comparison I made. They all end up falling into the same type of use. Just a note on Anthropic, I see that people are using it more for the corporate side, while

11:03with Grokbot, people are delegating more tasks, let's say, for personal life use and so on. Let me show you how it works in practice now. Speaking of this usage, token consumption, right, we are now finding new ways to consume these tokens, with bots being one of those ways, right? Anthropic also announced their quarterly balance sheet , and man, they burned, if I'm not mistaken, 80 billion dollars. But there is a very important detail. Of those 80 billion dollars, only 9 billion were actually in investments, right, in data centers and all that. And the other 70- something billion were basically paper money, right? It was basically financial commitments they have that

11:50get readjusted, right? So as the company gains more value, those commitments get readjusted and that ends up making their paper loss larger. What does that mean? It means they will be more diluted, right? That is what it actually means, not that they necessarily have to shell out cash, right? Ah, one thing that surprised me was the revenue. They basically multiplied their revenue by 10. They grew from 1 billion, if I'm not mistaken, to over 10 billion. So, man, it's absurd, really. This just confirms something I told you in the video about the AI bubble compared to the Dot-com, which is that there is a lot of demand,

12:35right? So, companies are investing in infrastructure, there is a lot of demand. There is, of course, a change in how all this GPU depreciation is recorded on company balance sheets, which could cause them to have larger losses in the coming years because of all that, right? So, it's something I think we've never experienced, so there's no way to compare it, let's say , to the web bubble, right? But that's it. I ordered a coffee here, I'm heading to the car, and I'll show you in practice the Grokbot connected to the Tesla, which turned out really cool . Hey guys, let me show you the setup I

13:12mentioned regarding Grok, okay? We are going to continue our trip here, and we don't have any destination on the map yet, right? Hey Grok, take a look at our itinerary for the day, ask Grokbot what our next stop is. I'll check with Grokbot. I sent it to Grokbot. As soon as it replies, I'll let you know. It has already started

13:33looking at the calendars. Good news. The next stop is at 2:50 PM, Berlin time. Lunch and charging at the Brenner Supercharger, at the PL Museum, on the A22 motorway, at kilometer 1.3. Set it, set it as our destination on the map for us, please. Let me search for that Supercharger. I found a Tesla Supercharger on the A22 in Brennero, 84.9 km away from here, open 24 hours. Check, check with Grokbot if that's exactly the one we

14:10need. Querying again. I sent it to Grokbot to confirm if that's the right one. It's comparing the addresses. Confirmed. That's the one. Grokbot cross-referenced it with the calendar and the address matches perfectly with the 24-stall Brennero Supercharger. And what is our final destination? At the moment, the route only has one stop. Yeah, I know, but ask, ask Grokbot for

14:52the final destination. I asked. So, you need to change it. Add this final destination as the end of our trip and include that stop we're going to make for lunch and charging as one of the stops on the way to the final destination, because I want to see the entire route on our map here.

15:12Searching for the hotel. Found it. Hold on.

15:24Okay. And what time will we arrive at the hotel? The navigation estimates arrival at the hotel at 4:27 PM, Berlin time. What is there for us to do there once we arrive? Is there time to do anything before sunset? Yes, there's plenty of time. The sunset there is around 6:13 PM, so you'd have almost 2 hours. The Colheiser cable car is still running until November 1st and it's the fastest way to get a view. Can you check the ticket prices for our

16:00group of five for the cable car today? Hey, use Grockbot for that. I'll ask Grockbot. Sent.

16:18How far is this cable car from the Preapel hotel? You have to take the car . Good thing Grockbot already brought the prices. Round trip for an adult is € 34, so five people comes out to € 170 total. Just the ascent would be 115 . But Grockbot warned that it won't work today. The cable car closes at

16:414:30 and you arrive around 5:10. Tomorrow it opens at 8:30. As for the distance, the hotel is about 2.8 km from the Colheiser station. You can walk there in about 35 minutes or is there a bus? So, we'll buy the tickets tomorrow, okay? Ask Grockbot to schedule a reminder for tomorrow morning to send me the confirmation request. If I confirm, it can look up the tickets for us tomorrow morning. Done, I've created the schedule. Tomorrow at 9 AM Berlin time, Grockbot will send you the confirmation request for the Colheiser tickets for the group of five. If you confirm, it will proceed with the times

17:27and the purchase. Alright? Thanks. Bye. That's it. So, as you can see, guys, using Grock Bot connected to Tesla's Grock works perfectly, you know? Because then it can connect to the itinerary here and the map and handle everything for us, like buying tickets and all that. So, just that detail I mentioned, right? We have to get Grock, the Super version, through a subscription on the Grock website itself, not through Cursor to make this work. Guys, we just arrived at the hotel and something happened that I actually need to circle back to from the start of the video. I told you I thought we should withdraw cash and

18:16buy gold. And man, we got here, I was in some meetings, I opened Twitter to scroll through, I saw Wells Fargo, I saw several American banks saying they suspect agents are hacking into customer accounts. So, it has already started, right? I'm not telling you all to run and withdraw your money, but it is something we're thinking about, right? Are we actually on the verge of seeing the apocalypse happen? I might have to go back to filming in the apocalyptic setting for you, but now I

18:48really don't know.