Jason's Grok Bot: Automating Tasks and Research

Open source is going to win it all. Acme litigators and Delta litigators are both using Harvey. Let's say Harvey now is like, not only do we not trust OpenAI with this, we need to have our own model. Harvey was probably spending, if I had to guess, I'm going to say 10 million a month with Open AI. >> Wow. >> 99% of their spend is coming off the Frontier models. They don't want to give their intelligence to somebody who wants to build the final company. All right, everybody. Welcome back to This Week in Startups. Boy, Jay Kle here with Lon Harris. Episode 20 [laughter] 28. How's that even possible? Year 17 of the show. >> We're in sci-fi numbers now. We're in sci-fi year now. It's getting crazy. We're just literally like, yeah, it feels like this is Bladeunner or something like that. And it's appropriate given how great these bots are doing. I just want to start the show off. You started playing with Grock. >> I got I owe Elon $200 now. I got to pay. He's making me pony up. >> All right. Yeah, do it. Uh, you can sign up for a corporate. >> I'm going to do it. I'm going to I'm going to do it. >> Yeah. Give us your explanation and what you're using it for and then I'll I'll tell you what I'm using it for. >> To me, it feels like when OpenClaw was brand new and you had us all sign up and we were all in Slack, I it was what the promise of that was, but OpenClaw in a virtual machine in like some data center somewhere. It couldn't connect to everything it needed to connect to. It was too walled off. So, it wasn't really that useful. It kept having to remind it things and log it in this API key that Grobbot is automatic. You just tell it what you want. It can find whatever. It's got its own computer. Like just today, I I asked it, you know, to look at the news and cross reference it to X, which is a thing I always wanted Gaff, my old openclaw assistant to do, but he couldn't ever get into X reliably. would try to back door and it would never work. It was always very timeconuming and painful. Grockbot just is like, "Hey, here I'm going to bring up my computer." It actually shows you what it's seeing. It goes just log into X for me. I logged in through our this weekend AI account and it's just off to the it just it sees everything I could see. It's logged in. It's pulling tweets. It's referencing things. It's very intuitive. You just need to tell it in plain language what you want. It's it's very impressive. >> Yeah, the um interface is really interesting. I'll just share mine. Who cares? >> Let's see your Grockbot. Show us your Grockbot. >> Well, here's my Grockbot. Uh, and what I'm doing. So, we have a thing tactical and practical. If you make it rhyme, people will remember it. So, I want to do more tactical and practical talks here on the show. And, um, you know, I've been just having um a conversation with it. um looking for looking for you to make talks, startup founders, focused on tactical and practical advice for them to scale their businesses, find product market fit, and generally grow, hiring, sales, paid marketing, fundraising, content marketing, all that good stuff. And it just went to work finding these things >> and linking to them and uh building it out, building it out. And then I said, "Hey, well, give me other uh ideas for topics uh and then send it to the tactical practical room on Slack every 48 hours and then ask Ismael on my team who's in Tokyo right now representing us for founder university. I want him to be part of this motion." Um, and then I said, "Also, when you find a great speaker, I want you to give me their X account and LinkedIn accounts for the report." And then I said, "Please always send a Google sheet, yada yada yada." Like you said, you easily connect it. Um, and it's just doing this every day for me. And then I asked that like, hey, do me a favor. Find me things on hacker news, uh, and Reddit because those are where founders are actually talking about their problems. Uh, like for example, it's like, here's AI unit economics, pricing, credits, token spend, and people really care about that. I hadn't thought about that as something that founders would be interested in >> and this thing is running over and over. Then I made an AI trends one every night for this week in AI. do a scan, tell me what the top stories are. It's nailing it. Then I said, give me some competitive intelligence, right? >> Um, and so I said, for our newsletter business, I I'm so out of it. I want to know what every other organization is doing. Politico, E, Economist, Forbes, >> Axios, Semaphore, and it is going out as you can see. And then I told it follow all of the people who are the most important people in these organizations. And then you were talking about 404 media the other day. >> I just asked it like tell me about this publication and it gave me all the founders. It gave me their LinkedIn, their X, their Blue Sky, their Masterdon. I followed them everywhere. And then I said just tell me what they're talking about publicly. Then tell me all the event staff >> because I want to hire some event staff.