Published: 12 November 2026
Elon Musk’s AI company, which now calls itself SpaceXSI, took its Grok Bot agent out of beta on 11 November. With Grok Bot 1.0, one bot can serve a whole team, work in Slack and Microsoft Teams, and transcribe Google Meet, Zoom and Teams calls. It also no longer waits for instructions: it watches ongoing work and offers to pick up what it thinks needs doing.
A Team Bot learns from every colleague who works with it
Until now, a Grok Bot worked for the person who set it up. A Team Bot is shared the way you share a document: with the whole organisation, or with specific people and groups. Collaborators work with it, and Managers can change how it works and share it further.
As more colleagues use it, the bot builds up knowledge of the team’s work, preferences and decisions. According to xAI’s documentation, anything it learns from one teammate waits until the owner or a Manager approves it. That stops one person’s correction from quietly changing the bot for everyone.
The bigger shift is initiative. xAI says a bot can follow a project, notice a deadline and prepare the material. It can chase unfinished tasks and bring in a person when a decision needs human judgement. According to the announcement, bots respect each person’s permissions, ask before sensitive actions and check whether information suits a public channel.
In Microsoft Teams, the bot reads every channel of the teams it joins
An admin has to let the bot into your chat tools. In Slack, a workspace admin approves the app. After that, any full member of the workspace can mention a bot that is shared with the whole organisation. In Microsoft Teams, a Teams admin approves the bot in the Teams admin center.
xAI’s Teams guide is clear about what follows: the bot reads the thread it is in and the channels of the teams it joined. For Slack, the documentation only describes a bot that answers mentions and direct messages and follows a thread once it is asked in.
In a call, the word “transcribing” in its name is the only notice
To bring a bot into a meeting, you paste the meeting link into your chat with it. The host then admits it like any other guest. It listens, takes notes, answers questions in the meeting chat and sends a summary with action items when the call ends. In the participant list, its name carries the word “transcribing”.
The documentation mentions no other way of telling people in the call that a bot is there. It also does not say whether the audio is kept. Meetings come with the Team, Enterprise and Ultra plans, and on Enterprise an admin switches the feature on.
Grok Bot’s cloud computers run in the United States
Each bot works on its own cloud computer. xAI’s security FAQ says these computers run in the United States. The documentation mentions a US-only data residency programme, but no option to keep data in the EU.
xAI says customer data is not used for training when Privacy Mode is on. Retention settings, audit logs and network controls appear in the admin guide as Enterprise features. On the Team plan, every member gets Grok Bot by default, and the guide says there is no switch to turn it off.
- Available: since 11 November. The beta started on 11 August.
- Team Bots: Team and Enterprise plans.
- Meetings: Team, Enterprise and Ultra plans, for Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls.
- Price: the announcement lists none. The Grok Bot product page shows Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200 a month. Extra usage is billed at token cost, and Enterprise pricing goes through sales.
- Usage: on 1 November, Musk wrote on X that Grok Bot cost too much to serve relative to revenue, TeslaNorth reported. Paying users had run out of weekly usage early.
- Date: the announcement page on the xAI site is dated 2 November, but the launch posts on X went out on the evening of 11 November.
Decide which channels and calls a bot may join before you approve the app
For organisations, Grok Bot 1.0 changes the question. It is no longer what one employee lets an agent do, but what a team’s agent may hear. A bot in team channels and calls collects more than any single user would hand it, and it acts on that knowledge unasked. Organisations face the same questions with agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot. They are easier to settle before the bot sits in the channel than after.
If you want to test it, Enterprise is the plan where an admin can switch Grok Bot off, set retention and read audit logs. Set the Bot sharing option in xAI’s admin guide to Admins only. Start in one Teams team without customer conversations. Agree with your privacy officer how people in a call learn that a bot is transcribing them. And because the processing happens in the US, keep client calls out of scope until xAI offers an EU option.
For more information, visit the official announcement of Grok Bot 1.0 on the xAI blog.
