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

An ecosystem observation: Photon already provides the underlying capabilities for personal assistants including Muse, Instinct, Wajo, Grokbot, Boardy and Dots, with integrations across several developer frameworks.

The post argues personal assistants matter more once they reach users in existing channels like iMessage and WhatsApp, and that Photon is building that infrastructure for Muse, Instinct and others.

In a podcast, Altman and others discuss how personal assistants can operate across the entire third-party internet rather than just chat, so both independent players and labs can win.

An observation post surveys the fast-growing personal agent ecosystem, from Muse, Instinct, Wajo, Grokbot, Boardy and Dots to integrations like Vercel Eve, Hermes and Mastra.

A Turkish post says OpenAI announced its always-on AI assistant Dots on September 29, after which dot.com redirected to xAI's Grok Bot page, with the domain registration changed back in July.

A heavy user compares Grok Bot with OpenAI Dots, listing six problems including single-threading, extreme slowness, no visibility into its work, laggy apps and no parallelism, and says only Grok Bot can currently do real work.

A DevDay interview with the Dots lead covers the default ask-before-acting permission and privacy design, the Space collaboration workspace, pricing for an always-on assistant, and whether these capabilities could reach free ChatGPT users.

A creator generated a version with Meta Muse and said the result was so striking that even they, the maker, felt their heart pounding when watching it at night, with the video attached.

A user shares their setup: Grok Bot as the only UI, switching models through Cursor cloud agents and Claude Code on an always-on Mac Mini, with Notion as a shared memory hub.

The author compiled public information about Dots into a free PDF covering how to assign each Dot a role, share context, set permissions and approvals, plus a 30-day implementation roadmap.

A frequent traveler made their Trippy Grok Bot public: it returns lodging, itinerary, flights, car rental and a shooting plan in one package, with a template link to add it directly.

The author uses Wabi to build a weight-loss and fitness app for themselves and school menus and games for their kids, noting it supports shared use and needs no cold start.