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

Grok Bot rolled out a new like interaction animation, with an image showing the effect, as a small update to the personal assistant product.

The post says Dots gives you one agent to work with directly, while Teamily puts agents inside group chats so a team and its agents work in the same conversation, and notes Teamily got there early.

An analysis of two different strategies for personal assistants: Meta relies on billion-scale distribution while Instinct relies on transaction fees, but both lack retention and unit economics data.

Shortly after OpenAI announced its Dots assistant, xAI bought the dot.com domain and pointed it to the Grok Bot download page, which commenters called blunt business warfare.

A Tamil-language post introduces OpenAI's new dots as AI agents that work for you 24/7 and links the browser-use open-source repo for building your own browser agent.

A user tested OpenAI Dots: it must be created on the ChatGPT web page, runs a Debian VM with 10G of memory and a 32G disk, ships with many productivity apps such as Blender and FreeCAD, and can be operated manually or connected to a local computer.

The author gave Soar, Instinct and Grok Bot the same prompt to find the cheapest lie-flat business-class flight; Grok Bot found the most money-saving creative routes, but price gaps between assistants were large enough to still require manual checking.

A short video shows OpenAI's newly teased always-on AI assistant Dots, which is said to closely resemble Grok Bot.

The user says Dots's scratchpad draws on Codex's suggested-tasks feature, pulling suggestions through multiple MCPs and proactively recommending tasks, which solves the problem of not knowing what to delegate to an assistant.

After OpenAI launched its always-on assistant Dots, xAI's already-purchased dot.com domain was found redirecting to Grok Bots, its direct competitor.

The author personifies the products: Instinct and Muse are free and answer anytime, while Grok Bot and OpenAI Dots are a complicated, rule-heavy team of specialists open only to paying users.

As OpenAI announced its new personal assistant Dots, the dot.com domain was bought and now redirects to the download page of competitor Grok Bot.