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

The author was invited to the private beta of Manus Cue and assigned the agent its own phone number and email, with plans to test it and report back in the thread.

The author notes that Fo and Manus Cue both give each assistant its own email, phone number and voice identity, and sees this as the next trend.

The author built a Grok Bot that checks your cards, plans and memberships to surface overlooked perks like lounge access, free subscriptions, travel and dining credits, and free hotel nights.

A hands-on test of Manus Cue finds it costs $20 and up after a free first month, its phone number feels bolted on and is locked to your proxy region, and restarting the container yields residential IPs from Pakistan, Egypt and Vietnam.

Meta's personal assistant Muse can now connect to Zapier MCP, letting you ask it in one sentence to build an automation across 9,000+ apps.

Connecting Zapier MCP once lets Muse work across more than 9,000 apps, and it can also build workflows that keep running while you sleep.

The author compares Muse's cloud Secure VM with Manus Cue's independent identity, arguing that Chinese super apps lack the account system, permission gates and rollback needed for agents.

Wajo's Fo can call telecom support, fill out bank forms and handle paperwork, completing 71% of 104 tasks on its own and escalating the rest to humans.

A leak says ByteDance has turned Doubao's mobile personal agent into a standalone app called Spell, with a trial version rushed out for the Mid-Autumn holiday to compete with Muse and Instinct.

A question aimed at Manus Cue asking who actually owns the wallet held by the assistant, touching on the asset permission boundaries of a personal assistant.

Cue can now assign an assistant its own phone number so it can make calls, send and receive texts, and take transferred calls, which the author sees as assistants turning from software into digital employees that act for you.

The author says the feed has moved past Muse to a new AI personal assistant, but the best examples shown are either faked or meaningless, and ordinary people don't want this.