{"id":208487,"date":"2025-06-23T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208487\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:56:09","slug":"leak-reveals-grok-might-soon-edit-your-spreadsheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208487\/","title":{"rendered":"Leak reveals Grok might soon edit your spreadsheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaked code suggests xAI is developing an advanced file editor for Grok with spreadsheet support, signaling the company\u2019s push to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft by embedding AI copilots into productivity tools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can talk to Grok and ask it to assist you at the same time you\u2019re editing the files!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nima_owji\/status\/1936779453524226346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">writes<\/a> reverse engineer Nima Owji, who leaked the finding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: xAI is working on an advanced FILE EDITOR for GROK!<\/p>\n<p>It even supports SPREADSHEETS!<\/p>\n<p>You can talk to Grok and ask it to assist you at the same time you&#8217;re editing the files! <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9vIKRZj6Wn\">pic.twitter.com\/9vIKRZj6Wn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nima Owji (@nima_owji) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nima_owji\/status\/1936779453524226346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has reached out to xAI to confirm the findings and learn more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xAI hasn\u2019t explicitly detailed its strategy for pursuing interactive, multimodal AI workspaces, but it has dropped a series of announcements that point to how the company is thinking about these tools. In April 2025, xAI launched<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/15\/grok-gains-a-canvas-like-tool-for-creating-docs-and-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Grok Studio<\/a>, a split-screen workspace that lets users collaborate with Grok on generating documents, code, reports, and browser games. It also launched the ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok\/status\/1912929414347886606?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">create Workspaces<\/a> that let you organize files and conversations in a single place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While OpenAI and Microsoft have similar tools, Google\u2019s Gemini <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/09\/google-workspace-gets-automation-flows-podcast-style-summaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Workspace<\/a> for Sheets, Docs, and Gmail appears to be the most similar to what xAI is reportedly building. Google\u2019s tools can edit Docs and Sheets and allow you to chat with Gemini while looking at or editing documents. The difference is that Gemini Workspace only works within Google\u2019s own ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not clear what types of files xAI\u2019s editor might support aside from spreadsheets, or whether xAI plans to build a full productivity suite that could compete with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Owji\u2019s findings are true, the advanced editor would be a step towards Elon Musk\u2019s ambitions to turn X into an \u201ceverything app\u201d that includes docs, chat, payments, and social media.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaked code suggests xAI is developing an advanced file editor for Grok with spreadsheet support, signaling the company\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,9328,53,16,15,1604],"class_list":{"0":"post-208487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-grok","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-xai"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114734444430626871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}