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

A Japanese news roundup covers the DHS ban on DeepSeek, Meta Muse's Japan pre-registration, Claude Duet sign-ups, and using Dots or Grok Bot to control a home PC remotely.

A ranked list of five recent AI updates: open-source DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Kimi K3.1 Pro, Grok Bot phone calls, the Claude Duet preview and the Gemini API CLI.

Recent releases like LFM2.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Meta Muse Spark Open are trained around agent workflows rather than standalone benchmarks, making harness-free evaluation less useful.

A weekly roundup covers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash shipping, Claude Duet's US Pro/Max waitlist, Meta Muse passing 10M US downloads in 40 days, and Grok Bot gaining calendar and reminders access.

A post says Claude released Duet, an always-on personal assistant that proactively comes to you for work, framed as a rival to Grok Bot and Dots, with the author plugging a self-built DeepSeek Bot.

The author runs research, posts, SEO, email and code through Grok Bot but plans to move the reasoning to DeepSeek on own GPUs, keeping Grok Bot as the manager, and documents each step.