Grok Bot, the AI agent from SpaceXAI that carries out tasks on its own cloud computer, received a broad speed and polish update on Friday, October 16. The headline change is pace: the company says computer tasks now finish three times sooner on average, and replies to everything else arrive in less than half the time. Elon Musk summed up the release in a short post on X: "Grok @Bot got much faster."
The most useful change for everyday X users is what happens after a user connects an X account. Grok Bot can now read X Chat messages and work across them, instead of reading only public X content. Paul Vann, who announced the feature, said he had spent the week with his bot reviewing and approving new message requests and helping him stay on top of a busy inbox. Musk added his own encouragement in a separate post: "Also, ask Grok @Bot to connect to your X DMs. Best way to use it."
Starting work also got simpler. Users can now tag @bot in a post on X and Grok Bot gets to work from there, without opening a separate app first. Voice calls are faster and more reliable, and the company says they are better at remembering past conversations. Notifications now go only to the device a person is currently using, rather than buzzing every device at once, and the app itself has a cleaner look, with redesigned chat cards, a new typeface, and themes.
The update also widened what Grok Bot can plug into. New connectors include Robinhood, Coinbase, Trello, PostHog, beehiiv, and eToro, and teams can now submit their own plugins for review, to be listed in Grok Bot, in Cursor, and later in Grok. The company has not said what the Robinhood, Coinbase, and eToro connectors can actually do, so anyone connecting a brokerage or crypto account would be wise to keep approvals switched on for anything that could place a trade.
Email handling improved in the same release cycle. Grok Bot addresses now support plus aliases, so a routine can run only when mail arrives at one specific alias, such as an address reserved for receipts or newsletters. That builds on the recent change that gave each bot its own email address, letting it receive confirmation links and handle routine inbox work on its owner's behalf.
Two cautions are worth keeping in mind. The speed figures are the company's own averages, and SpaceXAI has not published how it measured them, so individual results may vary. And reading X Chat is opt-in through connecting an account: without that connection, the bot still sees only public content. For X users whose message requests pile up, though, an assistant that can triage an inbox, answer faster, and start from a simple tag in a post is a practical step toward the agent becoming part of daily life on the platform.