Musk says Grok Bot will use rival models for selected tasks

A broader set of models behind Grok Bot

Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use models from Anthropic, Midjourney and Suno alongside its own technology. The Next Web reports that he announced the change in an October 7 post, describing a plan to choose the model expected to produce the best result for each task.

The report names Claude Opus 5.5 among the outside models. It does not establish a complete routing policy or give a task-by-task rollout schedule. The announcement should therefore be read as a change in model strategy, with the details of actual availability still important to users.

The assistant and its underlying model

Grok Bot launched in August as an agent app whose bots can work on their own computers and carry out tasks in parallel. The proposed change would make the assistant’s identity less dependent on a single family of models.

An agent can preserve its interface while changing the model that performs a particular operation. For someone using the product, however, continuity of the interface does not answer questions about which provider handles a request or what happens to the information included in it. Those details matter when selecting tools for work that contains private material.

Details worth checking as access changes

Musk did not specify which tasks would use which outside model. Users should look for product documentation that explains routing, access and any added charges before treating the announcement as a feature they can rely on.

A practical evaluation would compare the same task before and after the change, record which capabilities are actually available in the account, and inspect the result before authorizing consequential actions. Better model selection could help an agent choose an appropriate tool for a job, but the announcement alone supplies no measured quality improvement. It also leaves open how users will identify the model responsible for a particular answer.