# Grok Bot Explained: AI Employees With Their Own PC

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Podcast: [Authority Hacker Podcast – AI & Automation for Small biz & Marketers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/authority-hacker-podcast-ai-automation-for-small-biz-marketers-454885)
Published: 2026-08-21T20:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail rok Bot landed this week and a surprising number of people have already switched to it. Always-on AI agents, each with their own computer in the cloud, that you talk to like colleagues in Slack. It's the closest thing yet to a plug and play AI employee. It's also $200 a month minimum, you can't bring your own API key, and once you've built your setup on it you're locked in. So we put it up against Hermes, the open source agent that does most of the same job for a fraction of ...

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