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Grok Bot makes your slide decks now, and Elon wants you to try it

Your bot just learned PowerPoint. Somewhere, an intern is sweating.

Grok Bot 0.68.1 is out, announced on Oct 7 by Eric Zakariasson. The big trick: bots can now build slide decks with you and hand them over as PowerPoint or Google Slides. Elon Musk quote-posted it with "Try the latest Grok @Bot!" and that post has passed 6.9 million views.

The rest of the update: you can send formatted emails straight from a draft card, your messages in a one-on-one chat take that bot's color, and computer use is faster and now runs on a 1920x1200 screen. That last one is like giving your bot a bigger desk. Less squinting, more doing.

If your business runs on Grok Bots: the boring Monday stuff just got cheaper. The weekly update deck, the client recap email, the "can you make this look nice" job. Those can now start and finish inside the bot instead of bouncing between three apps.

What to do now: pick one deck you make every week and hand it to a bot, with last week's version as the example. Then check the numbers before it goes out. A pretty slide with a wrong number is still a wrong number, just in a nicer font.

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