Did Grok Bot just kill Hermes and OpenClaw?

0:00 SpaceX AI just released Grockbot, a direct competitor to Hermes Agent and OpenClaw. It's powered by their brand new AI model Gro 4.6 and it can do anything a human being can do on a computer while also having its own computer in the cloud. I've been testing it the last week and it is a really really good tool. But the question becomes, should you rip out Hermes and Open Claw to use it? Well, in this video you're about to find out. Let's lock in and get into it. So, this is Grockbot.

0:31 This is what you're going to be greeted with when you come into it for the first time. You'll get your first AI agent, which for me was Slate. You get these agents with these cool logos and profile pictures, which I really enjoy. They also get their own names as well, so they feel kind of humanlike, which I think is a really cool way to approach this. The whole point behind Rockbot is they want you to feel like you have a team of co-workers working for you. I think while Hermes Agent and Open Claw go for this feel of having like a chief of staff doing things for you, Grock is really going for here's a full team of different personas doing work for you on their own computers at all times. What we'll do first here is I'll go through what's special about Grockbot, what the differentiators are, give you a demo, then I'll talk about should you use this over Hermes or not, but starting off what makes it different again is that emphasis on multiple named agents doing work for you at all times. The other big differentiator here is each one has their own computer. So each one can either use your local computer or have their own computer that lives in the cloud. And in fact, you can watch everything it's doing on its cloud computer in real time. Not only that, you can click open here and you can actually go in and control their computer for them. So if you want to come in here and you want to control their browser and do anything inside here, you can do that as well. It is a fully operational cloud computer that your agent and you have control over.

2:09 But why would they want you to have control over this computer? Why would they want to give you such visibility? What's the point? Well, two different reasons. Number one, you can teach your Grobbot how to do things right in this computer. So, if you click teach a task, it starts recording your screen. And so if I wanted to go now and show it how to read my newsletters, if I wanted to go and show it how to buy things off Amazon, I can do that. Or if I wanted to show it how to find other AI YouTube videos, I can teach it any workflow I want right here through the browser. For you, maybe you have some sort of process at work where you have to create a special type of presentation or a document that comes from other types of information. You can walk through that process here where you click around, find the information, build the document for it, hit the stop button, and then now that agent, as you can see, learns that process and learns from that demonstration. So, it can repeat it over and over and over again and turns it into a reusable skill. As you can see here, it's now watching that demonstration I did, and it will be able to turn that into a skill. That's really cool. Claude and Chad GBT added similar features over the last few weeks, but neither is as intuitive as Grock is right here. It's as easy as just opening up and clicking teach a task. Another reason why having the built-in computer is really, really cool is it allows you to actually log in to accounts you want your Grockbot to have access to. So, I want Grockbot to edit my videos for me, right? I don't have my own team like a lot of other YouTubers out there. I don't have editors or thumbnail build. I do everything myself. But now what I want to do is actually have Grockbot try to edit this for me. So I'm going to go in. I'm actually going to log in for Grock so that it can access my account and edit my videos for me. And it's all done in this really intuitive user interface. Everything is really easy to understand. When you need to log into things or you need action, it's really easy to understand and you can see the computer at all times that it's controlling. So you can constantly monitor what your agent is doing. Here's another really amazing part about Grockpot that I like a lot. it is really good at prompting you for questions. If you teach it new skills, if you ask it to do things, it does a really good job of asking you further clarifying questions so it can understand what you're trying to do more. So, I showed it that screen recording. It's like, okay, what should we turn this skill into? And then it even asked me if I want to do a dry run.

4:40 It is really, really good at asking questions, which has always been kind of my favorite part of like using Claude. The plan mode is excellent. the multiple choice questions it gives you is excellence. I always like that about it. They bring that into here and they do it in a really good level. Another really awesome part about Grockbot is the agents can communicate with each other. So if you have a full fleet of agents working for you, you can be like, "Hey, can you work with Barry on this? Hey, can you work with the other agent on this?" And they'll share their knowledge and context together to get really good task done. Let me show you. So Barry's been doing a bunch of content repurposing for me. I'm going to say, can you work with Barry to see which content he has repurposed for me already? Just so they can be up to date on the work each other has done. This is really important to do if you decide to create new agents so that they can share context instantly rather than having to copy and paste all the context over. So, as you can see here, it's saying it's going to ping Barry. Messaged Barry.

5:34 Asked Barry, I'll bring back what he's already repurposed as soon as he replies. Got the message from Barry. As you can see, you can look at their messages between each other, which is really, really cool. See how they're talking to each other, and you can see, here's all my repurposed inventory, and it sends it over. That's amazing. That saves you a ton of time, right? You start a new agent, maybe have one agent that responds to your business emails that you just created, and you have another agent that's been doing a lot of other business work for you, and you want, hey, get all the contacts from this other agent, all the work you've done for me on my business. Instead of having to reexplain your entire business over and over and over again to your new agents, you say, "Hey, talk to my other agent. See what we've done already." And they go and they text message each other and get the context. That is really cool and saves a lot of time. That is a truly differentiated feature than any other AI agent I've seen out there. Speaking of context sharing, there is an entire plugins marketplace. So, you can see all these different plugins that will allow you to take in context from other apps as well. That is really, really nice to see on a day one app. That is really amazing. Cron jobs, they have them. They are called routines. As you can see, I already have a routine here for repurposing my weekly videos into newsletters. By the way, if you want to keep up to date on these videos, make sure to like and subscribe down below.

6:54 Turn on notifications. All I do is make amazing videos about the latest AI tools. Also, I'm doing live boot camp about Grockbot this week in the Vibe Coding Academy. Make sure to check that out down below. linked in the description. Best decision you ever make, join that community. Best AI community on planet Earth. But the routines are really amazing as well. You can decide when to run them. You can see past runs, give it specific instructions, test it out right now.

7:18 Standard cron job stuff. But what I really like about these routines is you can go in to any of your agents and say, "Hey, what routine should we make out of this?" You can get like recommendations on which routines to make. And it'll automatically spin them up and create them for you. So you don't have to sit there and like manually build out each and every routine. They have a mobile app. The mobile app is excellent. It is very very simple and clean. I think they hired a new team of designers over there at SpaceX. They are excellent. You go in, you can see the computers. You can take over the computers from mobile, which is really, really nice. Even in mobile, come in here, control the computer, log into accounts, whatever you need to do. All the same functionality as desktop. There really is no difference whatsoever, but in a really clean, nice package. Makes getting work done on the go really nice.

8:07 That is a must download as well. As for how to use it and what you should do when you first get into it, you should use my favorite method for introducing yourself to new agents, which is the brain dump to reverse prompt methodology. That is you go in, you tell it everything about yourself. As you can see, that's what I did here. And then you reverse prompt it. So you tell it all about yourself. Then you go, "Hey, what can you do for me?" And as you can see here, it gives you a bunch of really nice recommendations. Recommends doing repurposing for me. Ask me to connect my Gmail account. It'll recommend tools to connect. It'll recommend tasks it can do. It'll recommend routines it can install. And then you don't really have to do as much thinking. You lean on the intelligence of the agent to do these things. You don't have to come up with every single task for yourself. That's like the number one question I get all the time is like, "Oh, but what do I even do with these agents? What should I even do?" You don't have to think about it. You lean on the agent. You tell it about yourself. You say, "Hey, what can you do for me?" You'll get way more done that way. So, to recap, the differentiators and the strengths of Grockbot one, the kind of multi-agent approach is built in. Neither OpenClaw nor Hermes is built for this type of multi-agent approach. It's as easy as clicking the plus button. you have a brand new agent with a brand new name, persona, all of that really, really easily. Two is the builtin cloud computer. So, not only can it control your computer like a standard agent, but it is built in from the ground up to have its own computer. So, you can watch it do its work on your screen and you can also teach it through that computer how to do your daily tasks that you normally do on your computer. So, it can just offload that for you. And then another strength that multi-agent approach is the fact that they can communicate with each other out of the box standard. They're able to coordinate and share context and information which will save you tons of time. So the question becomes this, does it replace Hermes and Open Claw? I will say this.

10:02 If you want an outofthebox experience where you just open it up and you immediately start getting productivity done, no kind of tinkering, model selection, harness selection, UI setup necessary, then I would say Grockbot is the best. It just works out of the box. There's no crazy setup needed. There's no crashing, right? That is really the challenge with Hermes and OpenClaw is there's tons of setup and tinkering need to be done. And if you're not super technical, it becomes challenging and it will crash a lot. Grockbot just works out of the box and helps you out immediately. Now, the downside to that, the downside to not being open- source or tinkering is that this isn't going to be as customizable. I can customize Hermes and Open Claw literally any way I want. It's completely open source. If I wanted to make it powered by an open- source model, if I want to change how the UI works, if I want to change something under the hood, I can do that.

11:01 You can't really do that with Grockbot. But for like 90% of people who don't need to do those things, who just want like a a fleet of agents that do work for them, Grockbot's going to be perfect. Actually, Grockbot is going to be really, really good. But either way, no matter which persona you are, I think you need to download it. I think you need to use it. I think you need to try it out to see if it fits into your workflow because when it comes to AI, the space moves so fast that you just need to try every tool that comes out.

11:29 You need to test them out to see what works for you. Some of them will work for you, some of them won't, but you got to at least give it a try because if you find the ones that fit into your workflow really, really well, it will up your productivity a ton. And for me, Grockbot has been that. It's excellent. Try it out. Just released today. I think it's a slower beta roll out. I think by Friday, everyone will be able to use it.

11:52 It's Tuesday right now. So, if you can't use it now, keep trying over the next few days. But they have started rolling out this beta today. Let me know what you think. Is this differentiating enough from Hermes and OpenClaw for you? Let me know down below. I hope this was helpful. Subscribe. Turn notifications if it was. I'll see you in the next video.