Grok Bot Copies What Manus Did a Year Ago, Big Labs Are "Trend Followers"
weswinder · x · 2026-08-30
A developer takes a jab at xAI's Grok Bot for replicating what Manus shipped a year ago, arguing the big labs are strikingly slow on the app layer: they are trend followers, not trendsetters. It echoes a common critique that frontier model leaders lag startups on product innovation.
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