Hands-on comparison of Claude Duet, Grok Bot, Muse and Dots
A tester finds Claude Duet good at proactive checks and background tasks but limited to Anthropic's cloud, while Dots can bridge to the local machine with permission.
The AI personal assistant race is getting pretty crowded. 😂 I've been testing Anthropic's new Claude Duet research preview, and I have to say, it's actually pretty good. It proactively checks what's happening, figures out what needs attention, handles tasks in the background, and asks before taking consequential actions. Meanwhile, Grok Bot is leaning into persistent agents that can collaborate with each other, and Meta's Muse is taking the personal assistant approach, even through WhatsApp. I like where they're all going. Duet, however, runs entirely on Anthropic's cloud computer for now. Which is convenient, until I want it to interact with my personal local agents, files, or desktop. Then it might as well be on another planet. 🤔 And for those of us running a mix of local and cloud AI, that's a pretty significant limitation. That's one thing I particularly like about Dots. It can bridge cloud tasks with my own computer, with my permission. I think whoever makes that connection secure, seamless, and easy to use will have a real advantage. Because the best personal AI assistant shouldn't care where my stuff lives. It should just be able to work with it, with my permission, of course.