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

Tempo's CBO says personal agents like Instinct, Meta Muse and ChatGPT Dots are emerging fast, and within six months nearly every scaled consumer AI platform will offer one that negotiates bills, collects refunds and manages money for users.

The author argues that people who haven't tried personal AI assistants like Muse and Instinct shouldn't discuss healthcare's "front door" on panels, since discovery, booking and buying will route through personal agents.

Forbes selected 20 agentic AI companies and projects, including Instinct, a 14-person assistant company valued at $10 billion, and infrastructure firms that help agents browse the web and transact.

Fred Wilson says agents currently log into services by pretending to be the user, and that a standard way for personal assistants to connect to each service's own agent is needed; Sierra is developing a Personal Agent Protocol with Muse, Instinct, Shopify and others.

Olivia Moore assigns each assistant a role: Instinct for shopping and forms, Muse for connector mini-apps, Dots for long-term projects and Town for work email, arguing general assistants struggle to be general and will win by scenario like search did.

The author says losing Amazon access has drained the excitement from personal agents, leaving them to manually check curtain fabric, colour and dimensions on Amazon.

A user tested Instinct, Muse and Grok Bot on flight refunds, package tracking and a restaurant reservation; Muse was consistently 2-3x faster but still took over 5 minutes for simple requests.

A satirical post mocks Instinct for having no revenue, ads or business model while fighting Meta's Muse, reaching users through WhatsApp and iMessage, and still reaching a $10B valuation.