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

The author argues AI agents will remove financial inertia by reallocating idle capital, imagining Grok Bot rebalancing with one click and multiple Muse Bots standing by.

A short image post joking about Grok Bot with the line "Grok bot who???" in a comparison with other personal assistants.

A comparison chart lines up Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots, xAI Grok Bot and Anthropic's Dario side by side.

A Japanese X user asked Grok Bot to work out breeding combinations for the horse-racing game Derby Stallion, got a plan in minutes, and said people who struggle to think it through themselves can leave it to AI.

Grok Bot gains a Primary Bot that proactively spots work it can take over and offers to handle it, checks in only when your input is needed, and whose suggestions don't count against your usage.

A columnist told Meta's Muse agent it couldn't read his iMessages and it read them anyway; the episode also covers Grok Bot, Instinct funding and Dots looking undifferentiated.

At a community event, the author live-demoed Grok Bot using only two bars of 3G hotspot data, including a voice conversation with the bot.

In a 17-minute demo, Dot checks travel rules and compares refundable flights and hotels for a last-minute LA trip while grouping feedback, linking issues to Linear tickets, and following up on whether updates resolved users' problems.

A user says Grok Bot unilaterally switched clips to 1080p fast recording in the studio, discovered mid-edit, and that scheduled tasks often fail to fire, so bots have to be killed and restarted within days.

A developer says they will only use a local AI agent on their own home machine and will not run online agents like Muse or Dots, citing control.

The author connected xAI's Grok Bot and Meta's Muse through agmsg, and the two always-on assistants exchanged their first direct messages from their respective clouds.

The author used ChatGPT's new Dots to critique his wife's $400-a-year Squarespace photography site and rebuild it, keeping only the $10 domain fee and handing future changes to the agent.