Hey squad,
I spent last week putting Grok Bot through some startup and marketing tasks, and here’s my 0.02.
If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s xAI’s take on ai agent teammates. They’ve humanized it by adding cute little faces to each of your teammates. And each teammate can get programmed for a specific job such as an “ad copy specialist” or “chief of staff”
These teammates can talk to each other and even run on schedules.
Here’s where my head is at as a Claude power user though.
Claude Code still wins on basically every dimension. It has the ability to add custom connectors, can build fully custom web apps/ artifacts, entire team can hook into GitHub repo (the future imo), etc.
What I do love about Grok Bot though are the cute little teammates and UI that makes it less intimidating for beginners into ai. It provides such a nice onramp so that users feel an “aha” moment asap without much setup.
Tools like Grok Bot are amazing as onramps into the world of ai. More people outside of the tech bubble I live in will get their hands on ai due to this.
It’s a win overall for the xAI team.
Now, let's get into it.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT ads went global in the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea this week. Ads were shown to logged-in free and Go users (Plus/ Pro stay clean). Ads sit next to the answer and OpenAI states that the ads don't touch what ChatGPT tells you.
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6. They’re moving at insane speed with their releases. 3.7 is described as a cheap & quick ($0.75 per million input tokens). It’s also 50% off through end of year.
Retail AI assistants are working. 44% of July sessions that used Amazon's Alexa to shop converted into a purchase. This is up from 34% last year. Walmart says Sparky users spend about ~30% more per order. Chat → purchase is heating up.
Claude Code on auto mode by default. Sessions have stopped asking permission for every step and run. (I’ve had this toggled since the first week lol) Claude will only pause for tasks that are destructive or irreversible. Makes sense as I feel most users were just clicking up a storm on “approve all”
Ultrafast mode being previewed - OpenAI is running GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x speed (750 tokens/ second) on Cerebras chips.
Lovable raises $400M at a $13B valuation - The website and app builder that’s primarily used by founder and marketers is building up their war chest.
Gemini crossed 1 billion users - A billion monthly users and they now join ChatGPT at that milestone.
OpenAI names a new revenue chief - Dali Rajic (ex Wiz) has joined as the second CRO in under a year.
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