Meta’s AI investments had been written off by many as wasteful vanity. Yet the same investors now say Muse, the firm’s new personal agent, will soon upend commerce and the world

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Meta's AI chief just made the case for why an AI assistant should know your deepest dreams before you do. Alexandr Wang says most of us never actually say out loud what we want — a healthier life, a business idea, more time with family — and that silence is exactly why those dreams stall out. His pitch for Muse: give everyone a "general manager" that catches the half-formed wish and builds the plan around it. What would you want Muse to help you chase? @alexandr_wang

META'S MUSE IS #5# ON THE APP STORE. 95% OF ITS USERS ALREADY HAD FACEBOOK 2.8M installs in its first 12 days 642K daily users in the US. ChatGPT had 231K at the same point in its life the stat nobody talks about: over 95% of Muse users are also Facebook users. 63% are on Instagram riley brown checked the charts this week. Muse #1#. Grok Bot #196# the scariest part is that meta didnt win on the model. it won because billions of people already have its apps on their phone personally, this one stings a bit. i've spent months building on grok bot and writing about it. for what i do its the better tool. and it doesnt matter crypto taught me this already. the best chain rarely wins. the one with the exchange listing, the wallet already installed, the default button, that one wins AI is the same. for us on X the model is the product. for everyone else the product is whatever is already on their home screen

Meta’s answer to the “pervert glasses” problem is to launch a camera-less pair of smart specs. Still, it appears to have no plans to backpedal on cameras, with plans for 100 different models by the end of the year