other ai bots

xAI-Bot

Operated by xAI · Other AI bots

An xAI crawler with no public documentation on what it does. Its role stays unexplained until xAI says more.

When xAI-Bot shows up in your logs

xAI fetched your page for a reason it hasn't spelled out. Keep an eye on the volume.

AI-related bot traffic that does not fit the categories above.

Allow or block it in robots.txt

A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.

allow
User-agent: xAI-Bot
Disallow:
block
User-agent: xAI-Bot
Disallow: /

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