Grok Bots can now make phone calls over iMessage — 'zero learning curve is the sauce'
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-11-11
Developer Riley Ralmuto shared a DM from his Grok Bot: agents can now place phone calls for users over iMessage (booking tables, moving appointments), confirming before dialing with live transcript, hang-up, or takeover options — requiring Grok Bot 1.19.0+ on iPhone. He's building similar iMessage and calling capability for his mnemos agents inside Polyphonic.
His take: the whole industry is converging on agents as companions/collaborators that do "human" things, because 99% of people don't care about SWE-Bench records — they care about effortless, familiar, zero-learning-curve interfaces. "That is the sauce."
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