Amazon bans AI agent Grok Bot. Musk quickly responds: It should be a competing shopping website. Musk, the world’s richest man, has a new conflict with Amazon founder Bezos.

Amazon bans AI agent Grok Bot. Musk responded quickly: It should be a competing shopping website. Musk, the world’s richest man, has a new conflict with Amazon founder Bezos. According to user feedback, Amazon is blocking Grok Bots from placing orders. Grok Bot is a personal artificial intelligence agent launched by xAI that can perform tasks set by users on various applications, including placing orders and returns on shopping websites. However, Amazon has always maintained an unwelcome attitude towards such third-party agents, including Meta's Muse, which has also been denied access. Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, previously stated on Musk was more outspoken, responding at X that perhaps he should start a company to compete with Amazon. He also suggested to Grok Bot users to place orders on other platforms. The comments could be a hint that Musk is considering launching an e-commerce platform, but they could also just be a taunt at Amazon. The Boundary of AI Agents The competition between Musk and Bezos has always been fierce. In addition to the Grok Bot controversy, Musk's SpaceX is also competing with Bezos' Blue Origin in the space field. SpaceX's Starlink Internet is also chasing each other with Amazon's Leo satellite network. If Musk really wants to start a company that competes with Amazon in e-commerce, the battleground between the two billionaires will stretch from heaven to earth. At the same time, access to major platforms by artificial intelligence agents has become an increasingly sensitive topic. When Amazon banned Muse, it pointed out in a statement that third-party shopping applications should operate openly and respect the service provider's decision on whether to participate. Meta had not notified Amazon of this matter before, and this behavior has problems such as leaking customer information. Amazon also filed lawsuits against Google and OpenAI’s artificial intelligence assistants, and also separately sued Perplexity’s AI assistant Comet, but the latter lawsuit brought a major legal setback to Amazon. The U.S. court pointed out that banning Comet would harm consumers' right to choose and unnecessarily restrict the development of an emerging technology. Unlike Amazon, Spotify announced in September that all of its online stores would welcome artificial intelligence agents. via cnBeta.COM - Chinese industry information station (author: Source: Financial Associated Press)