Sensor Tower

2026-11-03

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Google brings experimental AI app Dreambeans to India with support for 13 local languages

Google has expanded its experimental AI app Dreambeans to India, its first market outside the U.S., offering Android and iOS support and 13 local languages. The app proactively generates personalized illustrated (and in some cases animated) stories using data from connected Google services via its Personal Intelligence system, while Google acknowledges limits on mixed‑language output and raises privacy and content‑sensitivity considerations.

6.0

2026-10-21

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta says Muse surpasses 10 million users; shopping is a leading use

Meta told investors on its Q3 earnings call that Muse has been adopted by more than 10 million users and that roughly 25% of people who set up Muse use it daily. CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted shopping as a top activity—over a quarter of engaged shopping users recorded average purchases above $200—cited Plaid usage, described Muse Secure VM and a forthcoming Muse Confidential VM, and said Meta expects to improve compute cost-efficiency by over 10x and scale Muse toward profitability and higher revenue per user.

8.0

2026-10-20

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta’s Muse app reaches 10 million U.S. downloads in 40 days

Sensor Tower reports Meta’s AI companion Muse amassed about 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, including roughly 10.2 million in the U.S., becoming one of only a dozen apps to hit 10M U.S. downloads within its first 40 days. Meta has heavily promoted Muse across its ecosystem and via advertising (39% of October ad spend), and Sensor Tower data shows Muse has stronger short-term retention than rivals like ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and reached 2.5 million daily active users on October 16.

7.0

2026-10-07

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta’s Muse launches dedicated iPad app one month after iPhone debut

Meta has released a dedicated Muse app for iPad, roughly one month after Muse’s iPhone launch. The assistant, which has an estimated 6.6 million installs across iOS and Android, adds new connectors (e.g., Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Klaviyo, Zoom, Notion, Granola) and retail partners (Best Buy, Gap, Sephora, Walmart, Wayfair) to enable account linking and shopping/transaction capabilities.

6.0

2026-10-05

OTHER · 1 SOURCE · MIT Technology Review AI

Many people dislike AI — yet AI use keeps climbing

Multiple polls and reports show growing public unease about AI — Pew, Stanford, Gallup and NBC among them — even as usage soars (Sensor Tower reports ChatGPT reached 1 billion monthly users and Google DeepMind’s Gemini about 950 million). The article argues the apparent contradiction reflects people’s resentment of companies pushing AI widely and rapidly, not necessarily the underlying technology, and notes increasing regulatory activity (dozens of US state bills) and new open-source alternatives.

5.0

2026-09-27

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta promotes Muse at Connect as downloads top ~3.4M

Meta’s new AI app Muse has seen rapid adoption since its Sept. 8 launch, with Sensor Tower estimating more than 3.4 million downloads and other firms reporting 2.3–4.3 million; downloads and daily activity spiked after Meta heavily promoted Muse at its Meta Connect conference, where the company announced new features including avatar video chat, Mac support, an email address for the agent, more partners/connectors and smart-glasses plans. Muse has reached No.1 on the U.S. App Store and Google Play, and Meta is pushing the app via house ads across Facebook and Instagram plus wider ad buys, though paid ads accounted for a minority of impressions early on.

8.0

2026-09-20

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Meta’s Muse assistant stores persistent ‘Memory’ and prompts users to link more data

Meta’s new Muse AI assistant, promoted across Instagram and available on WhatsApp and Messenger, has been downloaded over 900,000 times in its first week (Sensor Tower). The app uses a virtual browsing agent and a persistent “Memory” document to store user preferences and interactions, can connect to email, banking (via Stripe) and other services, and currently offers no global toggle to disable its Memory feature—though users can edit or request wipes.

7.0

2026-09-17

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Instinct and Meta’s Muse add outbound calling to their AI assistants

Instinct announced Instinct Concierge, an early-access feature that lets its AI place calls to book services, join cancellation lists, and handle high-touch tasks; rollout begins with select users. Meta said Muse’s beta now supports outbound calls to U.S. businesses, prioritizing users who requested the feature, putting both assistants on feature parity for calling.

6.0