The latest official Grok Bot update, version 0.78.1 on 27 October (which also rolls in 0.78.0), is about the everyday admin around buying things. Shopping with a bot now shows proper product cards, orders are tracked after you buy, and new templates watch your free trials and subscriptions so they don't quietly keep charging you.
For a business owner, this is the kind of small, repetitive job an AI assistant should take off your plate: checking renewals, chasing a delivery, comparing a few options. The important part is that the bot does the watching and the legwork, and you still make the call before any money moves. That is the same approach SI1 takes when designing AI workforces: useful tools, with approval controls you can see.
This post is based on the official update notes, listed at the end. We haven't tested these features ourselves, so treat this as a plain-English guide to what the notes say, not a review. It follows on from our last post, which covered version 0.77.0.
Shopping with product cards (27 October)
When you ask a bot to find something to buy, the results now look more like a shop and less like a list of links.
- Products show as cards with photos, rating, price and store, plus up to two badges such as Top rated.
- Three or four results scroll in a carousel, and you can swipe through each product's photos.
- On a product page, in-stock options come first, and options no store has are greyed out.
- Buy now starts an order that you approve. The bot doesn't buy on its own.
Everyday example
- You need a new office chair. Ask your bot for a few options, swipe through the cards to compare photos and ratings, and only approve the one you want.
Order tracking after you buy (27 October)
After you place an order, the bot tracks it and tells you when it ships or arrives. Shipment cards show the carrier and the stage the delivery is at. Order cards also leave out a shipping address for orders that don't ship anything, such as a digital purchase.
Everyday example
- You've ordered printer ink for the office. Instead of checking your email for tracking links, your bot lets you know when it has shipped and when it's arrived.
Templates for free trials and subscriptions (27 October)
Three new bot templates take on the subscriptions most of us lose track of.
- Try it, don't pay for it starts a free trial for you, then cancels it, or reminds you, before it bills.
- Find unused subscriptions cancels plans you pick from the ones you still pay for.
- Watch subscription prices checks renewal prices.
Bots can now cancel a subscription, or look up its price and renewal date, and they confirm with you before changing anything.
Everyday example
- You signed up for a software trial to test it for a project. The trial template can remind you before the trial turns into a paid plan, so you decide whether to keep it rather than finding out on your card statement.
How to use it
- Start with Find unused subscriptions and read the list before you pick anything to cancel.
- Keep the confirmation step on. A bot that checks with you before cancelling is exactly what you want here.
Shop Pay in Vault (27 October)
Vault is where your bots keep cards, logins and contact details. You can now connect Shop Pay in Vault's Payments tab, then pick it when you pay or make it the payment method your bots use first. Editing a Vault contact also now offers Add email, Add phone and Make primary.
Smaller changes worth knowing
- Copying replies. Copy on a reply now keeps headings, lists and links when you paste into Slack, Gmail, Docs or Notion.
- Gmail drafts. Drafts the bot writes in plain text now open in rich text, so they read well on a phone and send without hard line breaks.
- Mac app. On an Apple silicon Mac, the Intel version of Grok Bot offers to download the Apple silicon version.
- Cloud agents. Bots can start cloud coding agents in a custom mode you name, and keep replying to them in that mode.
- Teams. Managers can add logins to a Team Bot's own Vault, so the bot signs in with them for the team, and a Team Bot can be limited to Only you.
How to get started: a quick checklist
- Update Grok Bot to the latest version.
- Next time you need to buy something, ask your bot for a few options and compare the product cards.
- Approve purchases yourself, and let the bot track the delivery.
- Try the Find unused subscriptions template and review the list before cancelling anything.
- If you start a free trial, use the Try it, don't pay for it template so you get a reminder before it bills.
- If you use Shop Pay, decide whether you want it as your bots' first payment method in Vault.
Where SI1 fits
At Super Intelligence One, we help business owners and everyday users put AI to practical use, without the hype. If you'd like help setting up tools like these for your work, including sensible approval controls around spending, get in touch.
Sources
Based on the official Grok Bot changelog at x.ai/changelog/bot:
- 27 October 2026: version 0.78.1, Shopping cards and subscription templates (also includes 0.78.0)