# xAI — Team Bots: shared AI teammates that learn as they work

- Company: xAI (x.ai)
- Announced: 2026-09-28
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: 3 outlets
- Announcement: yes
- Group: covered
- Source: https://x.ai/news/team-bots
- Record: https://forck.live/items/14742-team-bots-shared-ai-teammates-that-learn-as-they-work
- Subject: Grok
- Models affected: Grok Bot

xAI launched Team Bots, which are shared Grok Bots that teams can give access to files, apps, and expertise, and that learn from team interactions. Each Team Bot can be configured with context, plugins, credentials, and memories, and can be used in Slack with its own handle. The announcement includes examples of use at SpaceXAI for sales, engineering, marketing, and data analytics.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://x.ai/news/team-bots:

> Today we’re launching Team Bots, Grok Bots that work and learn alongside your team. Give one access to the files, apps, and expertise it needs, then share it so everyone can work from the same context.

## Around this story

Outlets this record can name and link:

- TechCrunch — Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots
- The Verge — Reddit says it has to cut back access to ‘Old Reddit’ because of AI bots: https://theverge.com/tech/1002788/old-reddit-ai-scraping
- MediaNama: https://medianama.com/2026/10/223-reddit-rss-feeds-public-api-bots

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