Reading up on Muse
34 deep · digging since sep 09
- How Personal Agents Get Paid - by Tanay Jaipuria
The article argues personal agents could earn 0.8‑4% of transaction volume via merchant fees and advertising, outlining how take rates might rise from payment commissions to affiliate and aggregator models.
- Two types of AI agents – Matthias Plappert
AI agents will divide into personal assistants that act on users' behalf under their name, and virtual employees that own independent accounts and responsibility.
- What Meta Got Right With Muse - by Mete Polat
Meta’s Muse succeeds by simplifying agentic AI through intuitive design, avatar personality, and ad‑funded free access, outpacing rivals despite lacking novel tech.
- Why Muse May Never Need Ads
Meta's Muse could remain ad‑free by earning indirect ad value from merchant transactions, positioning it as a neutral advocate against vertically‑specific agents.
- OpenAI connects the Dots
OpenAI’s new agent Dots offers paid, work‑focused AI assistance that saved the author roughly two hours of tasks with minimal effort, highlighting both its utility and lingering trust concerns.
- The Future Is for Everyone: Muse for Small Business
Meta launches Muse for Small Business, a free AI agent that integrates with Instagram, Facebook, Canva and other tools to automate routine tasks for small owners.
- Introducing dots
The article introduces 'dots' as always‑on AI agents that automate personal tasks to free up user time and attention for everyday productivity.
- A New A.I. Agent Enters the Marketplace: OpenAI’s Dots
OpenAI unveiled its new AI agent Dots, an assistant tool launched shortly after Meta's Muse, while the company faces scrutiny over recent technology-related incidents.
- Is an Agentic Bank Run Coming?
Agentic AI assistants such as Muse could automatically move household cash into high-yield accounts paying 3.3%–5.0%, potentially triggering a bank run.
- Inside Muse’s browser stack
Muse’s browser uses near‑stock Chromium driven by an 18 MB Rust broker that provisions warm VM pools, residential IP egress, and accessibility‑tree clicks for reliable automated browsing.
- Meta Seeks Payoff From AI Spending With New Push for Business Customers - WSJ
Meta launches a new enterprise business unit to monetize its $100B+ AI investment by selling tools like Muse, coding tools, and business agents.
- Agent (Muse) Compute Demand - by FD - Robonomics
Estimating Meta’s Muse agent for 100 M DAU, the analysis finds ~0.1 GW CPU/VM power, ~1‑2 GW inference power, requiring ~$800 M CPUs, ~$2 B DRAM, and up to 3‑4 GW total.
- Meta Muse is People
Meta tested a human‑in‑the‑loop concierge for its Muse AI assistant to handle phone calls, raising privacy and trust concerns despite the agent’s real‑world capabilities.
- Meet Noah Shinn, Whose Instinct AI Competes With Meta's Muse - Business Insider
23-year-old Noah Shinn's invite-only AI agent Instinct raised $250M at a $2.5B valuation and now competes with Meta's personal assistant Muse in the battle for practical AI assistants.
- I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away
In a firsthand account, Meta's AI agent Muse competently managed dental insurance calls, booked dinners, and created a podcast, but required sharing extensive personal data and trust.
- Why Didn't Google Build Muse?
Google possessed the data and platforms needed for a Muse‑style AI assistant, yet delayed Gemini Spark, fragmented its efforts, and offered a weaker user experience, allowing Meta to lead.
- Meta's Amusing Muse
Meta's Muse AI assistant combines a user‑friendly avatar, contextual integrations, and a personalized feed to make personal AI genuinely useful and sticky for everyday users.
- Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Meta unveiled Muse, a personal AI agent aimed at helping users manage tasks, information, and daily workflows across its platforms.
- Meta Rolls Out A.I. Agent That Can Send Your Emails and Book Your Travel
Meta launches Muse, an AI agent that can send emails, book travel, and integrate with Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, and OpenTable.
Takes
what we've shipped: muse ♥️ ton of connectors 🔧 muse invite codes 💌 muse phone call beta ☎️ muse for mac muse in canada 🇨🇦 muse connector platform 🛠️ muse mac computer use 💻 muse for small business 💼 muse gadgets 🕹️ muse memes 🤡 no butthole 🍰 what should we ship next?
@alexandr_wang
Muse, dots, Instinct, and the question every agent will be asked
@worldnetwork
Excited to open source the Muse Gadgets SDK today! You can connect your DIY electronics like ESP32 boards and Raspberry Pi to Muse. Build an e-ink morning briefing, a push-to-talk pocket device, a sysadmin for your homelab, and much more. Details at https://gadgets.muse.ai
@dps
For those that are curious... this is my personal AI infrastructure / I had my personal description describe itself... Love muse, but pratically for me - this slaps.
@lessin
Why I'm Building Muse
@alexandr_wang
Muse is cool, I'm a fan... but what's been on my mind lately is less about tech. We've created two big inventions over the last few thousand years: societal and physical. Democracy, markets, institutions, culture, shared values vs cars, planes, fire, etc... AI is about to massively level up individual capability. massively. This Muse post is exactly it. It's all about the individual. We can likely make anything physical soon. The best brains + dollars on the planet are pilling on. But when individuals become dramatically more powerful, more autonomous, and less dependent on each other, what new societal inventions do we need? What replaces the institutions, rituals and communities that evolved for a world where humans needed each other much more than they may in the future? Or is this "build me a society upgrade with..." prompt running in a backroom somewhere?
@jmwind
Muse is very impressive
@garrytan
We are excited to announce we are partnering deeply with Muse to enable agentic checkout with Shop Pay on all Shopify stores, offering people an easy and delightful way to shop and check out with Muse.
@tobi
How important is AI to Meta? Here’s one easy tell: One of the launch features of the Muse app was auto-negotiating for stuff on Facebook Marketplace. The poor product manager who owns Marketplace knows that millions of bots lowballing sellers will eventually kill the product. But this was escalated to Zuck by the Muse team and he said: “OK, we’ll poison Marketplace…but just a little.”
@nikitabier
I just read what Zuck wrote about Muse connectors. A few things I think this means: 1. We’re witnessing the agentification of consumer apps. 2. Zuck believes Muse reaching 100M+ users feels entirely possible. 3. Whoever you connect to becomes your new landlord, so pick carefully. 4. Connectors become the new app listings (valuable real estate). 5. Being early could be as valuable as being early to the App Store in 2009. 6. Meta sees what people want, which providers convert, and what users will pay. That gives it the power to rank connectors, charge for distribution, and launch competing services. 7. The opportunity map includes agent native APIs, connector agencies, SEO for agents, identity and reliability infrastructure, and vertical connector marketplaces. 8. We’re moving from humans choosing apps to agents choosing businesses. 9. Every business will need an agent strategy, just like every business needed a mobile strategy. 10. Kinda crazy to say but a 3 person API company could reach 10M+ users through one great connector. 11. Connectors could create an entirely new second-order economy. The biggest opportunity may be helping businesses distribute, price, and optimize their services for agents. 12. Your API becomes more important than your app. Weird to think about but true. 13. Zuck wants Muse to own the moment between wanting something and getting it. He is coming for the app economy. Will he win? Right now it's Instinct vs Muse vs Grokbot. TBD.
@gregisenberg
Ok Muse is actually useful. People are using Muse to get their money back, save on bills, get efunds. 10 wild examples:
@minchoi
I've been using the @Muse app on my Mac all day, every day for a while. There are four things it does that I really love: 1/ Quick access to my Muse when I'm working in any other app: ⌥–Space and Octavian appears, ready to help. 2/ Fast SOTA dictation into any app on my computer by holding fn (these shortcuts are configurable, ofc). 3/ The Muse app works with the messaging apps on my computer and helps me keep up. Sorry if I ghosted you before; I can never keep on top of my messages. Muse is already making me a better texter. 4/ My Muse has a little bot status pill that hangs out in the corner and tells me what Octavian is up to on my behalf all day long. What are you using the Mac app for?
@dps
Yet to see an example of something grok bot, instinct, muse etc can do that codex or claude can’t do with the same prompt
@frantzfries
something most folks who use muse won't ever know or appreciate was the degree to which this was @natfriedman's baby. it has been one of the great honors of my career watching nat cook. he assembled and ran the team, and so many of the little details that people love came from
@alexandr_wang
fantastic product (!!)- you're hitting on something bigger than Instinct: it's not just the giants who can eat your lunch anymore. anyone can. three years ago, building something was grabbing a couple of people, raise a little seed, put your head down, and ship in three or four months. That window was the moat. Three or four months of creativity with a little wind at my back, enough to build momentum so that by the time anyone cloned us, we were already two steps ahead. Now, two things scare the shit out of me. first, (online)social connectivity is at an all-time high. ideas propagate wider and faster than they ever have, and they reach the right people. second, AI has 10-20x'd output, and it did it without seed capital. seed money was its own barrier. you had to know high-net-worth people, pitch them, and close the round - now I can point AI agents at any app, catalog every feature, and have a working clone in a day or two max. and we're at the very beginning. what takes AI days today will take hours in a few months. so where's the moat? brand. trust and loyalty, and most likely to individuals rather than companies. If @tferriss launches a productivity app, you take it seriously in a way you never would with a random App Store listing. If @hubermanlab ships a longevity tracker, you're checking it out. In the short term, brand trumps everything. which brings it back to Instinct. there's no question every major AI player has already spun up teams to build a competitor e.g. Muse. that's what makes this moment so exciting: the barrier to entry is next to nothing. It's also what makes it terrifying: the barrier to entry is next to nothing.
@kevinrose