Summary
Grokbot has received two notable upgrades, and this video explains what changed, why it matters, and what users should do about it. Nate Herk covers Elon Musk’s announcement that Grokbot will route each task to the backend model most likely to deliver the best result, including Claude Opus 5.5 as well as services like Midjourney for images and Suno for music.
The video looks at Musk’s follow-up comments: simple requests will go to small, fast models, with a faster Grok 4.8 expected to handle most of them once released, while complex questions go to larger models. Herk also addresses user concerns about visibility, control, and the inability to opt out of routing to Anthropic models, and considers how routing could stretch weekly usage limits.
The second upgrade is built-in search, reading, and monitoring of X at no extra cost. Herk shows how he switched his bots from the paid X API to the native feature, reports on his weekly spend before the change, and shows a bot confirming a free daily allowance of reads. He also offers a practical tip: split large multi-step skills into smaller ones so routing can match cheaper models to simple steps and stronger models to reasoning or design work.
📺 Source: Nate Herk | AI Automation · Published October 09, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
