xAI bought dot.com and it redirects to the new Grok Bot launch page
whurley · x · 2026-09-30
A viral discovery on X: right after OpenAI announced its agent product Dots, dot.com turned out to have been bought by "SpaceXAI" (xAI) and redirects straight to the Grok Bot download page.
Grok Bot is pitched as "AI teammates":
- Assign tasks like messaging a coworker; Bots sign in to your tools and operate sites/apps like you, returning with finished work
- Run multiple Bots in parallel (sales outbound, talent scouting, paid media, expenses, bug reproduction) that pass work between each other in one thread
- Show a Bot a workflow once; it saves it as a routine, runs it autonomously, and keeps learning with persistent memory
Beyond the product, grabbing dot.com as a pun on competitor Dots is a dramatic branding move.
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