AI Personal Assistants: Muse, Grok Bot, Cue Usage & Comparisons

Polymarket reports that Musk announced Grok Bot will pick external models such as Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno depending on the task.

A short take: Hermes Agent targets developers, Muse targets ordinary users, Grok Bot sits in between, and Dots is seen as done for.

The author argues that having Grok Bot pick the best model per task helps mainstream adoption more than proving its own model can do everything, calling it a rare pragmatic decision from xAI.

A short video says competition among AI assistants is intense and Grok Bot is currently standing out.

Agent37's founder discusses the tech stack for building a personal assistant: Dots, Muse, Instinct and Grok Bot are finished products, Hermes and OpenClaw provide ready-made machinery, and he demos a Dots-like assistant.

A developer shares a Grok Bot that detects travel plans in email, creates an itinerary page, collects flight and hotel receipts, generates todos and sends proactive reminders, and can book or cancel via its browser.

The OpenDots team says its open-source Dots template gained 4,000 GitHub stars in one week, that it is reviewing PRs and preparing new partner work.

Developer mweinbach says knowing Grok Bot is powered by Opus 5.5 raises their trust and they plan to start using it again.

A post surveys the consumer personal assistant landscape, noting Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots and asking where Anthropic's equivalent product is.

Grok Bot includes 110 connectors, 88 official and 22 via custom MCP, covering Gmail, Drive, Slack, Notion and GitHub, each usable with a single OAuth click.

A video lays out a full setup around Dots: 10 workcells, 50 reusable jobs and 150 task slots, linking everything from demand signals to retention.

The author finds Grok Build and Grok Bot are completely separate, argues they should be integrated, and says Build one-shotted a tool he had been paying $10/month for while using far fewer credits than Bot.