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Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots offer AI agents with different costs and controls
Meta and OpenAI have introduced AI agents that can continue working after a user leaves.
Meta's Muse can handle tasks such as planning travel, filling forms and monitoring prices, while OpenAI's Dots can manage research and recurring work across connected apps.
Both agents use cloud computers and can connect to outside services, but they work through different interfaces.
Muse is available through its apps, the web and WhatsApp, while Dots are part of ChatGPT.
Users can link accounts or grant access to files and browsers, which can make the agents more useful but also gives them access to sensitive information.
Muse has a free tier with a usage cap and paid plans starting at $20 a month, while the lowest individual Dots plan described costs $100 a month.
Both companies say their agents can make mistakes and use permissions to manage sensitive actions; Dots are rolling out to eligible Pro users outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots are AI agents that can keep working after users leave.
Both can use cloud computers and connect to outside services, but they differ in price, permissions and availability.
Muse can handle tasks such as shopping, forms, travel plans, emails and price monitoring.
Dots work within ChatGPT and can manage research, connected applications and recurring tasks.
Muse has a free tier and paid plans starting at $20 per month, while the lowest individual Dots option listed is $100 per month.
- Who
- Meta and OpenAI offer the AI agents Muse and Dots.
- What
- The agents can continue working on tasks after users leave, with different costs, controls and capabilities.
- When
- Meta released Muse on September 8; OpenAI introduced its agents in ChatGPT three weeks later.
- Where
- Muse is available through its apps, the web and WhatsApp. Dots operate within ChatGPT.
- Why
- They are designed to do more than respond to prompts, continuing tasks such as research, shopping and recurring work.
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Meta released Muse.
OpenAI introduced its always-on agents in ChatGPT.
- Muse Power plan
- $20 per month
- Muse Maximum plan
- $100 per month
- Lowest individual Dots option
- Pro 100 at $100 per month
- Business Premium seat
- $100 per user per month billed annually, or $125 billed monthly
- Muse release date
- September 8
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