Above the Fog

Grok Bot vs Instinct

Grok Bot and Instinct side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Grok Bot is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 16 and Instinct is 💤 Quiet with 2. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.

Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.

At a glance

MeasureGrok BotInstinct
Stage💤 Quiet💤 Quiet
Hype score16.52.4
7-day change−10.6−7.6
In hype sincenot in hype nownot in hype now
Peak, 30 days34.7 on Oct 15, 202634 on Oct 6, 2026
Stories in 7 days7123
Share of voice, 7 days0.6%0.2%
Sources above normal1 of 180 of 19
Category🤖 Agents🤖 Agents

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, Grok Bot is the solid line and Instinct the dashed one.

DayGrok BotInstinct
Oct 29, 202616.52.4
Oct 28, 202617.41.7
Oct 27, 202615.11.9
Oct 26, 202613.80
Oct 25, 202612.50
Oct 24, 202617.50
Oct 23, 202628.310
Oct 22, 202627.110
Oct 21, 202629.410
Oct 20, 202617.50
Oct 19, 202625.515
Oct 18, 202612.69.6
Oct 17, 202616.112.9
Oct 16, 202616.81.6
Oct 15, 202634.73.5
Oct 14, 202621.40
Oct 13, 202624.70
Oct 12, 202621.30
Oct 11, 202622.511.4
Oct 10, 202617.314.4
Oct 9, 202632.715.7
Oct 8, 202616.229.1
Oct 7, 202622.628.7
Oct 6, 20268.134
Oct 5, 20262.229.2
Oct 4, 2026023
Oct 3, 2026014.6
Oct 2, 20261.227.7
Oct 1, 20261.224.7
Sep 30, 20262.932.3

Shared themes

What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):

Grok Bot: stories behind it

  1. Grok Bot, Muse, Dots, Gemini, Duet: five big-tech agents in 10 weeks. An honest founder’s take on what they got right, and why I think none of them will be the last one you set up — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 20 · 27 comments
  2. I built a free Grok Bot alternative for macOS. You can finally try it.(really completely free) — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 9 · 17 comments
  3. I added voice to my better Grok Bot Alternative, and the part I care about most is you can interrupt it mid-sentence — Reddit (r/vibecoding) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments
  4. : Official connector so Grok Bots can send briefs directly to Cursor agents (and receive reports back — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Oct 28 · score 0 · 1 comment
  5. Open-source Grok Bot alternative — Hacker News (github.com) · Oct 30 · score 3 · 0 comments

Instinct: stories behind it

  1. Can your AI browser agent pass as a human? We have been testing Muse, Grok, Instinct, and Manus — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 9 comments
  2. Zocdoc Opens Healthcare Infrastructure to AI Agents, Announces Instinct Partnership — Google News (RSS) (Digital Health News) · Oct 29
  3. Zocdoc partners with Instinct for AI appointment booking — Google News (RSS) (MobiHealthNews) · Oct 30
  4. Anthropic Files S1 Ahead of $2TRN IPO | Instinct's Rumoured $30BN Fundraise｜20VC — Google News (RSS) (finance.biggo.com) · Oct 28
  5. Grok Bot, Muse, Dots, Gemini, Duet: five big-tech agents in 10 weeks. An honest founder’s take on what they got right, and why I think none of them will be the last one you set up — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 20 · 27 comments

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