❯ Musk says Grok Bot will call outside models by task, naming Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno

A rival's model inside its own productElon Musk said on X on October 7 that SpaceX will from now on use the best back-end model for any given task, “including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs,” choosing whatever is most likely to give the best outcome. According to Tesla North, the post drew 35.9 million views.

One cloud computer per botGrok Bot is an AI agent app that SpaceXAI launched in beta this August. As tbreak describes it, each bot runs on its own cloud computer, handles tasks in parallel, works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and comes bundled with SuperGrok and paid Cursor plans rather than being sold separately. Grok Bot team member Lauren said on X that all bots will be powered by Opus 5.5.

Most requests still go to GrokDigital Music News cites Musk as saying most requests will go to a lightning-fast version of Grok 4.8. SpaceXAI has not said how the two statements fit together, when Midjourney and Suno will be connected, or whether users can pick the model themselves. Some users raised data-privacy concerns about conversations being routed to third parties; Musk did not respond.

Landlord and customer at oncetbreak notes that Anthropic currently rents SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, to run Claude. SpaceXAI is now buying Claude’s model services in return, so the same company both supplies Anthropic with compute and buys intelligence from it.

▮ SIGNALA company that trains its own models is saying publicly that its product works best on a competitor’s, which shows that in agent products whose model it is matters less than whether the task gets done.