The Agent Wars: Dots vs Muse vs Grok Bot

In the last two months, xAI's Grok Bot, Meta Muse, and OpenAI Dots all launched with nearly the same pitch: a persistent personal agent with its own cloud computer, memory, and scheduled tasks. Pierce (fresh back from Italy with Parmesan) and Richard compare the three, from Grok Bot's bot "teams" to Dots' always-on assistant to Muse negotiating Facebook Marketplace sales for you, sometimes badly.

We get into the security side: how Meta's "sentinel" keeps your credentials out of the agent's reach, where that approach can fail, and why handing agents Bash and letting them talk to each other opens new attack paths. We also look at why Muse hit 5M downloads in about three weeks, how much of that came from Meta's own ad spend, and why its retention numbers may say less than they seem to.