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SpaceXAI's Grok Bot has surpassed 400,000 users barely a month after launch, reaching 418,000 users as of September 14, up 24% in a single week. The enterprise-focused agentic-AI tool launched in mid-August and is designed to complete tasks across different apps and file types, positioning SpaceXAI to gain traction beyond the consumer chatbot market. The milestone arrived alongside Monday's release of Grok 4.7, which SpaceXAI describes as its most capable frontier model yet for coding and knowledge work. Meta Platforms' competing Muse agent, aimed more directly at consumers, recorded about 730,000 downloads in its first 10 days following its September 8 launch and reached the No. 1 position among free apps on both Apple's U.S. App Store and Google Play. SpaceXAI offers Grok Bot as a standalone application and through multiple AI subscription tiers, giving it several potential routes to convert adoption into recurring revenue.
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Meta Shares Rise as Muse AI Agent Outpaces ChatGPT's Early Launch Curve
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