Did Grok Bot just kill Hermes and OpenClaw?

0:00SpaceXAI just released Grokbot, a direct competitor to Hermes Agent and Open Claw. It's powered by their brand new AI model Grok 4.6, and it can do anything a human being can do on a computer, while also having its own computer in the cloud. I've been testing it the last week, and it is a really, really good tool. But, the question becomes, should you rip out Hermes and Open Claw to use it? Well, in this video, you're about to

0:27find out. Let's lock in and get into it. So, this is Grokbot. This is what you're going to be greeted with when you come into it for the first time. You'll get your first AI agent, which for me was Slate. You get these agents with these cool logos and profile pictures, which I really enjoy. They also get their own names as well, so they feel kind of human-like, which I think is a really cool way to approach this. The whole point behind Grokbot is they want you to feel like you have a team of co-workers working for you. I think while Hermes Agent and Open Claw go for this feel of

1:02having like a chief of staff doing things for you, Grok is really going for here's a full team of different personas doing work for you on their own computers at all times. What we'll do first here is I'll go through what's special about Grokbot, what the differentiators are, give you a demo, then I'll talk about should you use this over Hermes or not. But, starting off what makes it different, again, is that emphasis on multiple named agents doing work for you at all times. The other big differentiator here is each one has their own computer. So, each one can either use your local computer or have

1:42their own computer that lives in the cloud. And in fact, you can watch everything it's doing on its cloud computer in real time. Not only that, you can click open here, and you can actually go in and control their computer for them. So, if you want to come in here and you want to control their browser and do anything inside here, you can do that as well. This is a fully operational cloud computer that

2:06your agent and you have control over. But, why would they want you to have control over this computer? Why would they want to give you such visibility? What's the point? Well, two different reasons. Number one, you can teach your So, if you click teach a task, it starts recording your screen. And so, if I wanted to go now and show it how to read my newsletters, if I wanted to go and show it how to buy things off Amazon, I can do that. Or, if I wanted to show it how to find other AI YouTube videos, I can teach it any workflow I want right here through the browser. For you, maybe

2:46you have some sort of process at work where you have to create a special type of presentation or a document that comes from other types of information, you can walk through that process here where you click around, find the information, build the document for it, hit the stop button, and then now that agent, as you can see, learns that process and learns from that demonstration. So, it can repeat it over and over and over again, and turns it into a reusable skill. As you can see here, it's now watching that demonstration I did, and it will be able to turn that into a skill. That's really

3:18cool. Claude and ChatGPT added similar features over last few weeks, but neither is as intuitive as Grok is right here. It's It's easy as just opening up and clicking teach a task. Another reason why having a built-in computer is really, really cool is it allows you to actually log in to accounts you want your Grok bot to have access to. So, I want Grok bot to edit my videos for me, right? I don't have my own team like a lot of other YouTubers out there. I don't have editors or thumbnail build. I do everything myself. But, now what I want to do is actually have Grok bot try

3:53to edit this for me. So I'm going to go in and I'm actually going to log in for Grok so that it can access my account and edit my videos for me. And it's all done in this really intuitive user interface. Everything is really easy to understand. When you need to log into things or you need action, it's really easy to understand and you can see the computer at all times that it's controlling so you can constantly monitor what your agent is doing. Here's another really amazing part about GrokBot that I like a lot. Uh it is really good at prompting you for questions. If you teach it new skills,

4:25if you ask it to do things, it does a really good job of asking you further clarifying questions so it can understand what you're trying to do more. So I showed it that screen recording. It's like, "Okay, what should we turn this skill into?" And then even asked me if I want to do a dry run. It is really really good at asking questions, which has always been kind of

4:43my favorite part of like using Claude. The plan mode is excellent. The multiple choice questions it gives you is excellent. I always like that about it. They bring that into here and they do it in a really good level. Another really awesome part about GrokBot is the agents can communicate with each other. So if you have a full fleet of agents working for you, you can be like, "Hey, can you work with Barry on this? Hey, can you work with the other agent on this?" And they'll share their knowledge and context together to get really good tasks done. Let me show you. So Barry's been doing a bunch of content

5:12repurposing for me. I'm going to say, "Can you work with Barry to see which content he has repurposed for me already?" Just so they can be up to date on the work each other has done. This is really important to do if you decide to create new agents so that they can share context instantly rather than having to copy and paste all the context over. So as you can see here, it's saying it's going to ping Barry, message Barry, ask Barry, I'll bring back what he's already repurposed as soon as he replies. Got the message from Barry. As you can see, you can look at their messages between

5:41each other, which is really really cool. See how they're talking to each each And you can see, "Here's all my repurposed inventory and it sends it over. That's amazing. That saves you a ton of time, right? You start a new agent, maybe you have one agent that responds to your business emails that you just created and you have another agent that's been doing a lot of other business work for you and you want to say, "Hey, get all the contacts from this other agent, all the work you've done for me on my business." Instead of having to re-explain your entire business over and over and over again to

6:10your new agents, you can say, "Hey, talk to my other agent, see what we've done already." And they go and they text message each other and get the contacts. That is really cool and saves a lot of time. That is a truly differentiated feature than any other AI agent I've seen out there. Speaking of context sharing, there is an entire plugins marketplace. So, you can see all these different plugins that will allow you to take in context from other apps, as well. That is really, really nice to see on a day one app. That is really amazing. Cron jobs, they have them. They are called routines. As you can see, I

6:43already have a routine here for repurposing uh my weekly videos into newsletters. By the way, if you want to keep up to date on these videos, make sure to like and subscribe down below. Turn on notifications. All I do is make amazing videos about the latest AI tools. Also, I'm doing live bootcamp about Grok Bot this week in the Vibe Coding Academy. Make sure to check that out down below, linked in the description. Best decision you'll ever make joining that community, best AI community on planet Earth. But, the

7:10routines are really amazing, as well. You can decide when to run them. You can see past runs. Give it specific instructions. Test it out right now. Standard cron job stuff. But, what I really like about these routines is you can go in to any of your agents and say, "Hey, what routine should we make out of this?" You can get like recommendations on which routines to make and it'll automatically spin them up and create them for you. So, you don't have to sit there and like manually build out each and every routine. They have a mobile app. The mobile app is excellent. It is very, very simple and clean. I think

7:42they hired a new team of designers over there at SpaceX AI. They are excellent. You go in, you can see the computers, you can take over the computers from mobile, which is really, really nice. Even in mobile, come in here, control the computer, log into accounts, whatever you need to do. All the same functionality as desktop. There really is no difference whatsoever, but in really clean, nice package. Makes

8:05getting work done on the go really nice. That is a must download as well. As for how to use it and what you should do when you first get into it, you should use my favorite method for introducing yourself to new agents, which is the brain dump to reverse prompt methodology. That is, you go in, you tell it everything about yourself. As you can see, that's what I did here. And then you reverse prompt it. So, you tell it all about yourself, then you go, "Hey, what can you do for me?" And as you can see here, it gives you a bunch of really nice recommendations,

8:37recommends doing repurposing for me, asked me to connect my Gmail account, it'll recommend tools to connect, it'll recommend tasks it can do, it'll recommend routines it can install. And then you don't really have to do as much thinking. You lean on the intelligence of the agent to do these things. You don't have to come up with every single task yourself. It's like the number one question I get all the time is like, "Oh, but what do I even do with these agents? What should I even do?" You don't have to think about it. You lean on the agent. You tell it about yourself. You say, "Hey, what can you do

9:04for me?" You'll get way more done that way. So, to recap the differentiators and the strengths of Grok bot, one, the kind of multi agent approach is built in. Neither Open Claw nor Hermes is built for this type of multi agent approach. It's as easy as clicking the plus button. You have a brand new agent with a brand new name, persona, all of that, really, really easily. Two is the built-in cloud computer. So, not only can it control your computer like a standard agent, but it is built in from

9:31the ground up to have its own computer. So, you can watch it do its work on your screen. And you can also teach it through that computer how to do your daily tasks that you normally do on your computer, so it can just offload that for you. And then another strength that multi-agent approach is the fact that they can communicate with each other out of the box standard. They're able to coordinate and share context and information, which will save you tons of time. So the question becomes this, does it replace Hermes and Openclaw? I will say this, if you want an out-of-the-box experience where you just open it up and

10:06you immediately start getting productivity done, no kind of tinkering, model selection, harness selection, UI setup necessary, then I would say Grok Bot is the best. It just works out of the box. There's no crazy setup needed. There's no crashing. Right, that is really the challenge with Hermes and Openclaw is there's tons of setup and tinkering need to be done. And if you're not super technical, it becomes

10:33challenging and it will crash a lot. Grok Bot just works out of the box and helps you out immediately. Now the downside to that, the downside to not being open source or tinkering, is that this isn't going to be as customizable. I can customize Hermes and Openclaw literally any way I want. It's completely open source. If I wanted to make it powered by an open source model, if I want to change how the UI works, if I want to change something under the hood, I can do that. You can't really do that with Grok Bot. But for like 90% of people who don't need to do those

11:05things, who just want like a a fleet of agents that do work for them, Grok Bot's going to be perfect actually. Grok Bot is going to be really really good. But either way, no matter which persona you are, I think you need to download it. I think you need to use it. I think you need to try it out to see if it fits into your workflow. Because when it comes to AI, the space moves so fast that you just need to try every tool that comes out. You need to test them out to see what works for you. Some of them will work for you, some of them

11:33won't, but you got to at least give it a try because if you find the ones that fit into your workflow really, really well, it will up your productivity a ton. And for me, Grok Bot has been that. It's excellent. Try it out. Just released today. I think it's a slower beta rollout. Think by Friday everyone will be able to use it. It's Tuesday right now. So, if you can't use it now, keep trying over the next few days, but they have started rolling out this beta today. Let me know what you think. Is this differentiated enough from Hermes and Open Claw for you? Let me know down

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