Hands-on: Grok Bot fumbles flight booking; bundled X subscription is the draw
A Chinese hands-on review says Grok Bot, the "AI employee" Elon Musk has been promoting in a flurry of X posts, failed a simple task: planning a Nov 13 Guangzhou–Wenzhou round trip for a wedding and comparing flight prices across platforms. It first suggested an early flight requiring a 4 a.m. wake-up, then pushed to book without completing the price comparison, having only retrieved a "from 600 yuan" quote on Tongcheng while Ctrip, Qunar, Fliggy and airline sites were unreadable. The reviewer notes Grok Bot cannot control other phone apps and works through a persistent cloud computer on the web, needing user login and authorization, making it similar to existing browser-controlling Computer Use agents; the real draw, the article says, is the $30/month The X Subscription bundling Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X membership with shared AI quotas.
The test shows agentic assistants still hit real-world walls around logins and cross-platform data, while bundled subscriptions and model routing may drive adoption more than raw capability.