After xAI ships Grok Bot, two-brother team declares war: "we shipped it months earlier"
tibo_maker · x · 2026-09-03
tibomaker recounts that pbteja1998 and saidheeraj96 had been building the Grok Bot-style architecture for a year as MissionControlHQ — shipped months earlier, iterated longer, and used in production by real growing teams — so he argues Squad is now the more mature product. With one of the biggest AI labs becoming their biggest competitor overnight, he says the stakes went up 1000x, but Elon already educated the market on what an AI teammate is: "now it's a real fight, David and Goliath."
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