IT Home On October 17, according to news, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, posted a tweet on the X platform today (October 17) stating that his team is investing a large amount of resources into developing the commercial-specific bargaining robot “Hagglebot” to improve corporate cost efficiency.
IT Home note: “Specialized bargaining robot” is an AI software designed to negotiate prices and secure better transaction conditions for enterprises, not a physical robot. It can be imagined as a “digital procurement negotiator”: enterprises set a budget, acceptable price, and transaction conditions for it, and it helps in bargaining around these targets.
He expects that the product will improve corporate cost efficiency by 5% or more; if this figure is applied to the global GDP, the annual cost savings could reach up to 6 trillion US dollars (about 40.22 trillion RMB at current exchange rates).
This statement came from his response to a post where a user introduced the Grok Bots. The user claimed that during the first week of using the Haggle Bot, the team saved over $100,000 (about 670,000 RMB at current exchange rate).
In terms of positioning, Hagglebot targets corporate business bargaining needs, rather than ordinary chat functions. However, the publicly available information is still very limited: Musk has not explained how it will conduct bargaining or which transactions it will handle, nor has he announced the launch date, pricing policies, or scope of availability.