News & analysis

Original reporting on the ecosystem — dated, sourced, corrections in public.

• 2026-08-31Share links shipped - the official gallery is one page away

  Bot templates went public on Aug 28 and five third-party directories moved within 48 hours; only some of what they built survives xAI publishing its own gallery.

• 2026-08-31The Aug 20-21 outage: what broke and what it taught us

  Bots failed mid-turn, staff pointed to Reset Grok Bot's Computer, and the workaround said more about the shared-cloud-computer architecture than the incident did.

• 2026-08-31The 15-day price collapse: $300 to $20

  Grok Bot's entry price fell from a $300/mo floor at launch to $20/mo by Aug 26, 2026 — and took the clone ecosystem's pricing wedge with it.