Station 01 · pass at 75%
What this actually is
Grok Bot is not another chat thread. Ray Fernando treats it as named teammates with jobs, a phone-and-desktop iMessage surface, and a cloud computer that keeps working when your laptop is closed.
0:00 – 2:20
Teammates, not a chatbot
0:00 – 2:20 · The opening pitch: personas, plugins, dual computers, phone + desktop.
Thesis
The primitive is not 'an AI.' The primitive is a teammate you can text. Everything later in this course compounds from that reframe.
- Cursor (now joined with xAI) shipped Grok Bot as AI teammates you spin up with a persona.
- Setup pain from Hermes / OpenClaw — new agents re-signing into Chrome, copying configs — is the thing this product is trying to delete.
- Each bot can use your machine and a dedicated cloud computer that stays signed into Gmail, Slack, Notion, Luma, Vercel.
- Desktop plus phone. The conversation looks like iMessage and continues when you walk away.
- Early access sat on Cursor Ultra (~$200) or SuperGrok Heavy (~$300). Weekly usage is included; extra is token-billed.
Field work
Name the work, not the tool
Before you hire a bot, list the work you already hand to a colleague over text. This is the bottom rung. Do not mention models or plugins yet.
Station quiz
Pass at 3/4. You can retake.
1.How does Ray frame Grok Bot, versus ChatGPT?
2.What are the two computers?
3.What interface does he compare it to?
4.In the stream, who typically gets Grok Bot?