How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Episode Date: September 8, 2026Roman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of...
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361 episodes transcribedRoman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of...
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