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

The author argues that Muse, Grok Bot and Dots remove setup work but hand account and data control to a company, while a self-built Mac Mini setup gives full control at the cost of complexity, and most users will pick convenience.

A user says Dots beats other agent tools: one agent can use the local computer, a cloud instance, Codex and the internet, take calls, and work on several projects in parallel without losing context.

Someone connected all of his financial accounts to Grok Bot and asked for a pie chart of his finances; the whole chart was a single $TSLA slice.

The author lists 21 Grok Bot configurations across management, product, content and life, from a chief-of-staff bot to a password manager, leaving only final decisions to himself.

turingou argues instant messaging is the best fit for a personal agent yet IM apps haven't done it, and guesses Apple may eventually acquire Instinct and build it into iMessage.

The author open-sourced Grim Tome, which runs inside Grok Bot, ChatGPT Dots and Codex to manage the family calendar, upcoming bills, weekly meals and grocery needs.

A developer used Grok Bot to build a prank assistant that keeps calling a colleague, and says it also works with Muse, Instinct and OpenAI Dots.

Figure founder's new personal assistant Hark runs tasks by clicking through websites like a person inside a cloud VM, unlike Muse's API-first approach, and the first 100,000 sign-ups get the paid plan free.

A user shows how Grok Bot works: prompt the bot on the timeline, then have it communicate with a bot running on your local machine.

Meta Muse's page of real AI assistant use cases doubled within a week, the author groups them into 14 categories and notes the data appears to be auto-collected from X posts.

An OKX employee estimates the company burns $10M in tokens monthly, mostly on vibe coding and PR review, and mentions assistants like Grok Bot, Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots.

A Browserbase employee says he landed the job through agents and explains why companies should let assistants like Instinct, Muse and Grok Bot access their business.