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OpenAI Develops Agent Features as SpaceXAI Pushes Grok Bot for Always-On Workplace Tasks

September 22, 2026 at 09:31 EDT

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OpenAI is developing new agent features aimed at competing more directly with SpaceXAI's Grok Bot, an always-on system pitched as AI teammates that can manage software, run routine workflows and collaborate in the background. The effort, reported by The Information, shows how quickly the AI-agent market is moving from chat interfaces toward persistent digital workers that can operate across apps over time.

September 2026 · OpenAI and SpaceXAI

Always-on agents move into workplace software

OpenAI is developing agent features as SpaceXAI markets Grok Bot as persistent AI teammates for routine work, software tasks and background collaboration.

Routines a Grok Bot can own

Recent run records kept per routine

Supported Grok Bot platforms listed in documentation

Persistence becomes the product

The strongest published comparison is inside Grok Bot's routine system: a Bot can own more saved routines than the number of recent records kept for each routine.

Routines per Bot

Run records per routine

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Why users care

Persistent agents can handle recurring research, operations, document work and software-adjacent tasks without repeated prompting.

What still worries teams

Approval boundaries, unintended handoffs and access to files, software and communications remain central deployment concerns.

The workflow loop both sides are chasing

Assign

Give the agent a real job

→

Run

Use apps, files and websites

→

Review

Return for approval when needed

→

Repeat

Save the work as a routine

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