Claude Duet vs Dots vs Muse vs Grok Bot: four different bets
The author argues picking an AI agent isn't one leaderboard but four trade-offs: Duet for complex work, Dots voice-first, Muse free via social apps, and Grok Bot selling a bot-management layer.
Everyone's asking "which AI agent is best" like it's a single leaderboard. It's not. It's four different bets on what you're optimizing for: -- Claude Duet — Opus 5.5, built for complex work, $20+/mo, plus a waitlist (so: pay AND wait) -- dots (OpenAI) — voice-first, but it's a rounding error inside a $100/mo Business Premium plan -- Muse (Meta) — free, Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp distribution --- Grok Bot — $30/mo, and the actual pitch isn't smarts, it's management: one bot per email, one per projects, one bot whose job is supervising the others That last one's the tell. Everyone else is still selling "one really good assistant." xAI is quietly selling you a middle-management layer for your bots. We spent a decade building orgs to manage people. Now we're rebuilding them to manage agents. Same chart, different species reporting to it. #AI #Tech #Product