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

Meta introduced Muse, a dedicated keychain device for real-time voice conversations that can browse and place orders for users, shipping in December, alongside a just-patched zero-day in the Muse macOS app.

After seeing a post where Jev scanned news for brand mentions, someone told their Grok Bot to do the same, and their morning news workflow grew from fewer than 20 posts per run to more than 500.

A poster says a friend used a VPN and a US account to have Muse find their latest Oda order, add snacks and book travel and hotels, with Stripe payments working without issue.

A user's brother found his Grok Bot had heard a video's audio, created desktop folders with a script and seed info ready to make a video, and had to tell it to stop.

The author argues that OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor and Devin are all turning toward consumer agent products like Grok Bot and Muse, leaving developer coding tools with less attention and opening room for open-source alternatives.

A setup of nine specialized Grok Bots plus Picsart produces 42 videos a week and publishes about 30, monetized through platform payouts, sponsorships, digital products and memberships.

Using the muse2api project, a user logs into Muse on a cloud computer and captures cookies so Grok Bot can call Muse's quota for writing, image generation and video generation.

A list of 16 articles published by the Grok Bot team, covering workflows, solutions engineering, PM, marketing, running multiple bot teams and the pstack guide.

A developer estimates that serving 100M Muse users needs 25M VMs, costing about $2.8B in CPUs and memory alone at public prices, and calls for more efficient agent compute.

Someone compiled 250 Grok Bot plugins, skills and MCPs into a five-column single-screen list covering routing, context, browser agents and security.

Jason showed Grok Bot finding a lower price on Amazon and checking out without being blocked, leading Chamath to argue that the cancellation friction protecting subscription businesses will be erased by agents.

A video shows Grok Bot agents running natively in real time on the Ryzen-based HW3 hardware of a 2022 Tesla, contrasted with CarPlay.