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Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will pick Claude over Grok when it’s better. One-model loyalty is dead.

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Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will pick Claude over Grok when it’s better. One-model loyalty is dead.

I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, explaining what they mean for people and organizations putting this technology to work. The thesis is simple: workers who learn to use AI will define the next era of their industries, and this newsletter is here to help you be one of them.

Elon Musk posted an “important note” on Wednesday about Grok Bot, the AI agent SpaceX launched in beta in August: “Important note regarding Grok @Bot: Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs. Whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome.”

Grok Bot is a joint product of SpaceXAI, the Musk AI lab now folded into SpaceX, and Cursor, which SpaceX agreed in June to buy for $60 billion in stock, a deal that closed in August.

In August, I wrote that when models converge on price, the money moves to whoever decides which model gets the job. This trend is happening across organizations increasingly relying on AI and trying to balance rising costs. 

I heard this firsthand this week. At least 10 of the 22 company leaders we interviewed at an AI event this week described the same habit: pick the model by the task, and keep the expensive one for the work that needs it. 

I’m in New York City this week with Alex Wilhelm of the Cautious Optimism newsletter and Nick Lucchesi of The New Stack , and we spent Monday and Tuesday at Insight Partners’s ScaleUp:AI conference interviewing the people running 22 of Insight’s portfolio companies.


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