Musk says Grok Bot will research and buy gifts for users’ friends and family

Musk’s post

On Nov. 1 (20:23 UTC), Elon Musk quoted a post on X by a16z partner Justine Moore. He wrote that Grok Bot will research gifts that users’ friends and family would love and buy them. The line is not a formal feature announcement. The Grok Bot documentation from SpaceXSI, Musk’s AI company, does not describe a separate gift feature, and no date was given.

Elon Musk@elonmusk

Grok @bot will research gifts that your friends and family would love and buy them

Justine Moore @venturetwins

Last week, I told my Grok @bot to surprise me with a gift.

I said it could use up to $100 from my X Money account, and asked it to consider my tweets + our conversations to pick a good present.

Look what arrived today! Even included a Halloween surprise 🎃

Moore’s experiment

Moore, an Andreessen Horowitz partner who focuses on AI, said on Oct. 31 that she had asked her Grok Bot a week earlier to surprise her with a gift. She let it spend up to $100 from her X Money account and asked it to consider her posts and their conversations when choosing. The package contained a LEGO Harry Potter set and, as a Halloween surprise, a LEGO skeleton set. The gift was for Moore herself, and she did not say how much the bot spent.

Justine Moore@venturetwins

Last week, I told my Grok @bot to surprise me with a gift.

I said it could use up to $100 from my X Money account, and asked it to consider my tweets + our conversations to pick a good present.

Look what arrived today! Even included a Halloween surprise 🎃

How Grok Bot shops

According to SpaceXSI’s documentation, Grok Bot consists of persistent AI agents that carry out multi-step tasks on a user’s behalf. Each bot works on a persistent cloud computer with a browser, file system and terminal, so it can browse sites and get through checkout. Users can also assign tasks by tagging the @bot account on X, as Moore did in her post.

Payment details are stored in Vault, Grok Bot’s secure store, and filled into pages without being shown to the model. According to the documentation, a card saved in Vault is used at checkout without a separate approval each time. Users who want to approve every payment are told not to save the card. Payment accounts such as Link or X Money can also be connected. SpaceXSI lists purchases and financial transfers among the actions users should set explicit limits on in their requests.

Usage and cost

That evening, an account called Doge Norway asked Musk whether a Grok Bot usage reset was possible, saying many people’s usage had run out very fast this week. Musk replied 11 minutes after his gift post, at 20:34 UTC. He wrote, in the past tense, that the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue.

According to the documentation, Grok Bot is included with the Premium, Super and Ultra tiers of The X Subscription, but not with Plus or Free. It draws from the same weekly usage pool as Cursor and the Grok apps, and prepaid credit covers usage past the pool. SpaceXSI has not said whether, or by how much, usage limits were changed.