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

An 8-minute talk is read as Altman saying Dots is a different category from GrokBot and Muse, and that OpenAI teams already use swarms of Dots agents to ship, update and evaluate products.

Dots is described as an always-on agent inside ChatGPT where each dot gets its own cloud computer and browser, connects to 4,000+ apps, and competes with Grok Bot, Muse and Instinct.

A tutorial for setting up two always-on agents on free Oracle VPS instances by installing the Hermes agent with the XFCE desktop and linking Discord or Telegram, giving assistants that can take screenshots, browse the web and use apps while you watch live.

A Korean user who tested Dots, OpenAI's answer to Muse, calls it a big disappointment, saying it is neither as powerful as Grok Bot nor as easy to use as Meta Muse.

Jason Del Rey joins Ben Thompson on Stratechery to talk about Amazon, Walmart and e-commerce, as well as Muse and the personal agent craze.

A creator posts a video saying it holds the secrets to making your first million with Grok Bot, framed as personal assistant monetization content.

The poster lists three always-on personal assistants — Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots and xAI GrokBot — and asks which one people are most optimistic about.

A Thai-language video walks through what the Dots agent in ChatGPT can do on a user's behalf: read-only background work, account changes that need review, password changes the user must do personally, plus four Custom Rules types and quota settings.

After reviewing September markets, the author sees oil prices as the key macro lever and cites the dense releases of GPT-6 Astra, Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots as evidence that AI fundamentals remain strong.

borjafat wrote an X long-form article about the launch of OpenAI Dots, with a link to the full text.

The author built a Grok Bot called Fate that takes a list of options and picks one, covering where to eat, what to buy, which idea to ship, who wins an argument, and what the team does next.

A user set up Cue with an access code and no payment details and saw that the agent can pick a Japanese 050 number, but is unsure whether the number is free during early access, what the monthly fee and call charges are, and has had no reply from the official account.