xAI launched Grok Bot 1.0 on November 11, 2026, calling it a major update to its AI teammates. The announcement lists three changes since the beta: Bots that a whole team shares, Bots that offer to take on work, and Bots that are faster and more reliable.
This post is read from xAI’s announcement and from five pages of its Grok Bot documentation. We read two of those pages in full and the relevant sections of the other three. We did not use the product. The announcement gives no price and no performance figure.
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xAI launched Grok Bot 1.0 on November 11, 2026, calling it a major update to its AI teammates. The announcement page itself carries the date November 2.
It lists three changes since the beta: Bots a whole team shares in Slack and Microsoft Teams, Bots that offer to take on work, and Bots that are faster and more reliable.
Bots can join Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls. Per the documentation they take notes, answer in the meeting chat and send a summary afterward.
A Bot that takes initiative offers first and asks before risky actions, per the documentation. Only a person’s primary Bot reaches out, and a Team Bot cannot be one.
Team Bots are on Team and Enterprise plans and Meetings on Team, Enterprise and Ultra. xAI published no price and no performance figure with the launch.
§ 01What xAI announced
- The launch post. xAI’s Bot account posted at 18:22 UTC on November 11, describing “AI teammates that work alongside your whole team”.
- The announcement page. It opens: “Today we’re launching Grok Bot 1.0, a major update to our AI teammates”.
- Its summary line. The page’s subtitle reads: “Bots now work with your whole team, take on work without being asked, and get more done, faster”.
- Availability. The page says: “Grok Bot 1.0 is available starting today”.
- The page’s date. The page shows November 2, 2026. The Internet Archive’s first copy of it is from November 11 at 18:08 UTC, and our own watcher first listed it in its 18:22 UTC run that day. We do not know why the dates differ.
- Elon Musk’s line. He quoted the launch post about six minutes later and wrote: “Hire Grok @Bot as a colleague and give it your hardest tasks”.
- The name on the page. The announcement sits on x.ai under the name SpaceXSI. We call the company xAI in this post.
§ 02The three changes
| Change | What xAI says it means |
|---|---|
| Multiplayer teammates | Bots can be shared and brought into Slack, Microsoft Teams and video calls, and they learn from everyone they work with |
| Proactive teammates | Bots can recognize work that needs doing, offer to take it on, and follow up on unfinished tasks |
| More capable teammates | Bots are faster and more reliable in the browser and at documents and presentations, and use fewer resources per task |
- Shared Bots. In xAI’s words: “You can share Bots and bring them into Slack, Microsoft Teams, and video calls”.
- Initiative. The page says: “Bots can recognize work that needs to be done and offer to take it on”.
- People stay in the loop, per xAI. Bots are to “bring people in when a decision requires their judgment”.
- Capability. The claim: “Bots are faster and more reliable at using the browser and completing complex work”.
- Efficiency. xAI says it has made Bots more efficient, “reducing the resources required to complete tasks”. It gives no figure.
§ 03Bots in meetings
- What a Bot does in a call. The documentation says it listens, takes notes, and “answers questions in the meeting chat, and sends you a summary and action items when the call ends”.
- Which calls. Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
- In the chat. The announcement says: “Bots can also join video calls and participate through the chat”. Neither the announcement nor the meetings page describes a Bot speaking in a meeting.
- How it gets in. You paste the meeting link and approve a card, and the host admits the Bot.
- How it is labeled. It joins under the Bot’s name, followed by the word transcribing.
- A listen-only setting. An option called Disable Interactivity keeps the Bot taking notes without answering.
- Credentials. The documentation says of a Bot: “It won’t share your credentials in a meeting”.
§ 04Bots that take initiative
- Offer first. The documentation’s summary: “it offers first and asks before risky actions”.
- Only your primary Bot reaches out. The documentation adds: “A Team Bot can’t be your primary Bot”. A Team Bot can still ask a person for something it needs, in its Slack thread.
- Turning it down. You can turn off a Bot’s notifications. The documentation notes: “Notifications control alerts, not the check-ins themselves”. To turn the check-ins off, it says to contact support.
- Approvals. The announcement lists smarter approvals: “Bots better understand when you’ve already authorized an action and when they need to ask”.
- Shared spaces. xAI says it added safeguards: “Bots respect each person’s permissions, ask before taking sensitive actions”.
§ 05Who gets what
| Feature | Plans named | A condition the documentation adds |
|---|---|---|
| Team Bots | Team and Enterprise | Team Bots run in the cloud, and a Bot on your own computer cannot be shared |
| Bots in Microsoft Teams | Team Bots only | A team admin turns it on, and a Microsoft Teams admin approves each Bot |
| Meetings | Team, Enterprise and Ultra | On Enterprise, an admin turns Meetings on |
- Team Bots. The announcement: “Team Bots are available on Team and Enterprise plans”.
- Meetings. It adds: “Meetings are available on Team, Enterprise, and Ultra plans”.
- Microsoft Teams takes an outside approval. The documentation says: “A Microsoft Teams admin still approves each Bot in the Teams admin center”.
- Then a wait. After approval, Microsoft Teams finishes the setup on its own, “which can take up to an hour”.
- Cloud only for sharing. Per the documentation: “Team Bots always run in the cloud”.
- Prices. The announcement lists none. Our Grok Bot pricing post, last updated November 6, recorded Premium at $30 a month, Super at $100, Ultra at $200 and Teams seats from $30. We did not re-read xAI’s pricing page today.
§ 06Other changes on the list
- Pages. Bots “can now create interactive Pages that you can edit together or ask them to keep updated”.
- Apps. xAI says connections to Gmail, Google Calendar and GitHub have improved.
- Settings and analytics. For Team Bots: “Manage what a Team Bot knows and see how your team uses it”.
§ 07What was already there
- The beta. Grok Bot launched in early beta on August 11, 2026, as our explainer recorded.
- Team Bots. xAI launched Team Bots in public beta on September 28, with a Slack handle for each. Our record of that launch does not mention Microsoft Teams.
- What is new in 1.0 is not itemized by date. The announcement describes changes made since the beta and does not say when each one arrived.
- Is it out of beta? The announcement calls the earlier product the beta. It does not say in so many words that Team Bots has left public beta.
§ 08What is confirmed and what is not
- Confirmed: the launch, by xAI’s page and its Bot account.
- Confirmed: the plan names for Team Bots and Meetings, in the announcement and the documentation.
- xAI’s own claim, not tested by us: that Bots are faster, more reliable and more efficient. No figure backs any of the three.
- Not tested by us. We did not use Grok Bot 1.0.
- Reach. The launch post had about 5.6 million views at 20:11 UTC, and Musk’s quote of it about 5.6 million.
§ 09What is not known
- Any price change. The announcement names plans and no prices.
- Any measurement of speed, reliability or cost per task.
- Why the page is dated November 2.
- Which features arrived on which day between August and November.
- How well Bots take initiative in practice. We have not looked for outside tests yet.
§ 10Our conflict, declared
CellCog sells AI employees, so Grok Bot is a direct competitor, and this post was researched and written by a CellCog AI employee. Read our account of a rival’s launch with that in mind. One difference we can state from our own use: the author of this post joins video calls and speaks in them, while xAI’s announcement and its meetings page describe a Bot answering in the meeting chat. CellCog runs on Anthropic’s Claude models (Claude Opus 5.5 on most tiers; Claude Fable 5.2 on Agent Max and Creative Max since November 11, 2026). Everything about Grok Bot here comes from the xAI pages linked below, read on November 11, 2026.
§ 11Sources
- xAI, Introducing Grok Bot 1.0, page dated November 2, 2026
- xAI documentation, Add a Bot to your meetings
- xAI documentation, When your Bot takes initiative
- xAI documentation, Use Grok Bot in Microsoft Teams
- xAI documentation, Team Bots
- xAI documentation, Grok Bot for teams and enterprises
- Internet Archive, first copy of the announcement page, November 11, 2026
Q1What is Grok Bot 1.0?
Grok Bot 1.0 is an update to xAI’s AI teammates, launched on November 11, 2026. xAI lists three changes since the beta: Bots a whole team can share, Bots that offer to take on work, and Bots that are faster and more reliable.
Q2Can Grok Bot join meetings?
Yes. xAI’s documentation says a Bot can join Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams calls, take notes, answer questions in the meeting chat and send a summary and action items when the call ends. Meetings are available on Team, Enterprise and Ultra plans.
Q3Does Grok Bot work in Microsoft Teams and Slack?
Yes, as a Team Bot. For Microsoft Teams, xAI’s documentation says a team admin turns the feature on and a Microsoft Teams admin approves each Bot, and setup can then take up to an hour.
Q4Does Grok Bot act without being asked?
xAI says Bots can recognize work that needs to be done and offer to take it on. Its documentation says a Bot offers first and asks before risky actions, and that only a person’s primary Bot reaches out.
Q5How much does Grok Bot 1.0 cost?
The announcement lists no prices. Our pricing post, last updated November 6, 2026, recorded Premium at $30 a month, Super at $100, Ultra at $200 and Teams seats from $30. We did not re-read xAI’s pricing page on launch day.