Does Grok Bot still make sense now that Claude Duet exists?

Chris @ChrisGPTOriginally posted 2026.10.22

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Wait a minute. Has nobody considered what Anthropic launching Claude Duet means for Grok Bot? Grok Bot is rolling out Claude Opus 5.5 as its underlying reasoning model. This was a great move by SpaceXai But…Anthropic just announced Duet, a first-party agent built around that same model, with native memory, skills, connectors, and its own execution environment. Why would I use Opus 5.5 through Grok Bot when I could use Anthropic’s own agent harness, which I’d expect to be better optimized for its models? Is this a “I don’t wanna play with you anymore situation”?