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OpenAI Develops Always-On Agent Features to Counter Grok Bot and Discusses a Reply to Muse

September 21, 2026 at 12:01 EDT

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OpenAI is developing features meant to compete more directly with SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot, which lets people run always-on agents across business software, and has discussed a personal assistant aimed at Meta’s Muse. People familiar with the plans say OpenAI is trying to catch up as rivals ship agents that keep working after a person steps away.

September 21, 2026 · OpenAI

OpenAI lines up always-on agents

Features in development would answer SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot, while a personal assistant aimed at Meta’s Muse is still only under discussion.

What Grok Bot access costs

Same unit: dollars per month. Column height matches the price. No standalone Grok Bot fee.

$120

per team seat

$200

Cursor Ultra

$300

SuperGrok Heavy

The top consumer bundle is 2.5 times the team seat price.

GROK BOT

Always-on team on cloud computers. Signs into workplace apps. Desktop and iOS. Enterprise still waitlisted.

MUSE

US personal agent from September 8. Free tier plus $20 and $100 plans. Own VM, WhatsApp, and one-time checkout cards.

OpenAI’s answer is not a shipped product

• An assistant team for daily tasks and background collaboration, aimed at Grok Bot.

• A personal assistant against Muse is being discussed, not announced.

• Existing Codex and ChatGPT agent tools may be repackaged. No launch date is public.

What early use showed

A multi-bot Grok Bot test with researcher, writer, and chief-of-staff roles worked out of the box. Muse hides card numbers and passwords and shows an audit trail.

What is still unsettled

Grok Bot has no independent reliability benchmark, no published task allowance, and no user control to pin a model. Muse remains US-only, also without a public completion rate.

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