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

A user says they built a Grok Bot that searches public ads and reports violations on its own.

The developer introduces PACT (Personal Agent Consent & Trust), a protocol for personal agents acting on a user's behalf, saying their Dots already manage email, request refunds and book services online.

A user reports Grok Bot's reply speed went from "20mph" to "120mph" in two weeks, calling the improvement significant.

The eToro plugin for Grok Bot lets users view portfolios, balances, positions and watchlists, research instruments and traders, and prepare and place trades from the bot.

OpenMuse is an MIT-licensed desktop AI assistant workbench that replicates Muse's capabilities, keeps data local, and supports browser-based research and resuming tasks across devices.

The post says the personal agent era has arrived, with GrokBot, Muse, Dots, Boardy and Instinct all on the timeline, and more than 50K developers building on Photon.

The author gives four steps: run a reverse prompting session so Dots interviews you, connect the plugins you need, set how it talks and behaves, and set up one automation for the task you hate most.

A video compares xAI, Meta and OpenAI assistants launched within seven weeks that each have their own computer and keep working after you log off, with each company betting on the office, the home or the paying subscriber.

The personal agent wave already includes Muse, Instinct, Grok Bot and Dots, and Photon is building the layer that lets these agents message you in chat apps you already use.

A Muse-related account says that pairing Muse with Link shows where a personal agent earns its keep, and that shopping is exactly where personal AI should go.

An AI B2B startup CMO shares making it onto TechCrunch and describes building integrations and events amid the personal assistant wave around instinct, muse and folk.

The author argues that viral personal assistants like Muse, Grok bot and Dots all run on text messages, and that Photon is the messaging infrastructure behind much of that wave.