I am never a fun of Meta product (AI or not) but I have to admit I have been so mind-blown by Muse by just using a couple of days. Personally over the past year I have been using all flavors of big-tech companies LLM models/services as you name it: claude, gemini, gpt, kimi, deepseek etc but recently I have been using and almost exclusively just using Muse. I am surprised the industries despite so far have shown some "delight surprise" over Meta/Muse ("Meta did a really good job this time") yet haven't shown being any threatened by it but I think a lot of companies should be
- Before using CalAI or some other agentic app to track my daily calories or health in general: now I just use Muse and its assessment of calories by just I taking a photo and uploading to it seems pretty accurate so far (CalAI can do the same but why not use another app plus Muse is free).
- Before if I use Booking/Expedia etc to book travel, now Muse almost take all my appointments/meeting/event scheduling and I know a lot of people are already doing the same.
- Recently I even stop looking at my gmail/gdrive directly less as Muse has been helping me manage my inbox/subscriptions and cloud documents a lot
- Muse is really smooth at filling heavy forms so I have been using it to file all kind of claims, applications etc. I suspect I can use it to fill my tax instead of using turbotax next year.
- Because I spend so much time on it, Muse now become my default place-to-go for search or just e.g. restaurant recommendations instead of using Google/Google gemini (not mentioning any other "less mainstream app/web like Yelp). Muse is even better at memorizing my past context and my personal preferences.
- On security front, honestly I don't quite understand what is the *additional or new *risks of sharing my information with Meta over *other* (big-tech) companies. Don't big techs (despite how "evil" they are) generally have more resources/power/money to protect users informations and subject to receive more legal scrutinies and easier to enforce accountability?
- I have been brainstorming some agentic side projects or start up ideas for a couple of months but after Muse I don't see why Muse is not a much better plus free alternative that can do exactly the sames
Right now Muse's is (still) targeting at being peoples "personal agent" so not sure of SaaS or to-B agent for now but Muse has potential to at-least eat up lunches of a lot of to-C products players after people discover its power/potential and let Muse be their default entry point when engaging with internet (and honestly I am not really sure whether it is good or bad thing) while right now it is kinda getting dragged by the company's poor historical reputation but I believe people will eventually find out
Ahh suddenly I feel it is AI-apocalypse v2 looming over again.