Aakash GuptaLead source
SpaceX now sells an AI phone agent for $4.80 an hour. Offshore call center agents in the Philippines, the outsourcing capital of the world, bill $8 to $18 an hour fully loaded. And that comparison actually flatters the humans. A human agent gets paid for the whole hour. Breaks, coaching, after-call notes, the dead air between one call ending and the next one ringing. Grok bills 8 cents per minute of actual conversation and nothing else. Run it on a Manila seat. Roughly $1,700 a month fully loaded, with around 110 hours of real talk time once you strip out everything that isn't a customer on the line. That comes to about 26 cents per talking minute, more than 3x the Grok rate. Cheap only matters if the thing can finish the call, and SpaceX tested this one on its own customers first.…Read original on X