NEWS · COMPANIES · #2643
WIRED tests six always-on AI agents — Muse, Dots, Instinct, Claude Duet, Gemini Spark, Grok Bot
A WIRED reporter spent a day running five tests across six always-on AI agents (Meta’s Muse; OpenAI’s Dots; Instinct; Anthropic’s Claude Duet; Google’s Gemini Spark; and xAI’s Grok Bot) to compare proactivity, instruction-following, and browsing abilities. The piece notes pricing and access differences (Muse free; Instinct free/invite; Dots $100/month inside ChatGPT; Gemini Spark $20/month; Claude Duet $20/month; Grok Bot $30/month), reports improvements over last year, and highlights privacy and trust concerns from connecting agents to personal data.
KEY POINTS
- A WIRED reporter spent a day running five tests across six always-on AI agents (Meta’s Muse; OpenAI’s Dots; Instinct; Anthropic’s Claude Duet; Google’s Gemini Spark; and xAI’s Grok Bot) to compare proactivity, instruction-following, and browsing abilities.
- The piece notes pricing and access differences (Muse free; Instinct free/invite; Dots $100/month inside ChatGPT; Gemini Spark $20/month; Claude Duet $20/month; Grok Bot $30/month), reports improvements over last year, and highlights privacy and trust concerns from connecting agents to personal data.
- This comparison signals that always-on personal AI agents are maturing into more usable consumer products while raising privacy and trust trade-offs across differing price models.
WHY IT MATTERS
This comparison signals that always-on personal AI agents are maturing into more usable consumer products while raising privacy and trust trade-offs across differing price models.