Instinct vs Muse vs Dots vs Grok Bot: Which AI Agent Should You Use?

0:00Apparently, every AI company wants to build its own personal assistant. Now, OpenAI has Dots, Meta has Muse, X has Grockbot, and then there's Instinct. You can give it a task, go live your life, and then come back and the work's all done for you. Anthropic just launched Duet as well, but I'm still on the wait list. But what exactly is the difference between each one, and which one should we use? Today, I'm going to walk through Instinct, Metamuse, OpenAI, Dots, and Grockbot to share with you guys how I'm using these tools and what the differences are. Let's start with Instinct. It was founded in 2025 by Noah

0:32Shinn, who is a programmer and AI researcher who was originally at Sierra. He was also the first author of Reflection, a 2023 research paper about AI agents improving through feedback and reflection. Instinct's pitch is that it's a personal assistant you can call or text with the phone and computer it can use to get things done. As the website says, it's a personal assistant that understands what you're working on and what's important to you. They suggest using it to order ingredients for a new recipe, book a train home for the weekend, order groceries, send flowers to a friend or find a court for the weekend. I personally used it to

1:06order new curtains and bedding on Quins. And I was honestly really impressed by how well it took the job end to end. It created new accounts for me, put the things in the cart, added my address in, and was pretty much all good to go. I personally did the payment myself just cuz I don't know if I trust the AI agents with my payment methods yet, but it overall made the process super simple. And yeah, like it said, there are no new interfaces. So, Instinct actually lives within iMessage, which is super dope. As you can see, I had it check my Air Canada membership number here for me. This was to add that in to

1:43one of the flights I'm going to take. But yeah, it's super convenient cuz because it is on iMessage, you can text it on your laptop, you can text it on your phone. So, a lot of times I will be out and about and I'll just flip out Instinct to help out with the task and it just goes ahead and gets the job done. One caveat with Instinct, it is invite only, so you have to know someone who can send you a link for it in order to access it. Next, we have Muse, which is created by Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. It introduced Muse in September 2026 as a

2:16personal AI agent. Muse has its own cloud computer, so it can connect to apps and it's available through its own app or on WhatsApp. Meta describes it as a wider personal assistant for things like email, travel, shopping, and longerterm goals. Muse has a free option with usage limits and paid tiers, but it's still limited testing. You will need a meta account and availability may vary by region. So it sounds pretty similar to Instinct, but I think for me the biggest distinction is the business side. Metal list connections to Instagram professional account analytics, Facebook pages, and tools like Canva and Shopify. So the product

2:52extends beyond just a single social app. And one of my main purposes of using it is for my Instagram accounts. I have my personal accounts, my my food Instagram, and my coding Instagram. And it's helpful to run the analytics and keep track of my connections. It's helped me sort through my DMs for potential collaborations and also just check to see who's not following me back. And the interface of Muse is there's one main chat and then a bunch of other side chats. So I'll create side chats for various themes of conversation. And so for example, I was looking into restaurant food collabs within the DMV or just trying to check

3:32the status of my flight in Laguardia that weekend of the Nor Easter. Then we have dots and this is OpenAI's version of their AI personal agent. This is the one that I connect with work because of its ongoing connection with Codeex. The core idea is that it's an ongoing assistant that learns your context and preferences over time. And my codeex has

3:54all my sessions from work from before. So, it's super helpful when I hand it off tasks. The dot also has its own cloud computer. It can use other connected apps such as chat GPT, Slack, or Teams. OpenAI's dots are rolling out to eligible chat GPT pro and business premium users in supported regions. In OpenAI's announcement on dev day, they described examples such as investigating bugs, building and testing changes, and preparing poll requests for review, which is honestly kind of what I give it as well. As you can see here, my dot is notifying me anytime I'm getting a new request. These are mostly coming in through Slack, and then it's keeping

4:32track of my to-dos here. And I've elaborated a bit more on my setup in this YouTube video, which I'll link somewhere on the screen if you want to check it out. But yeah, overall, I just think it has a huge advantage because I've been using Codex for months already. And that context, especially within my codebase, is something that Instinct and Muse do not have slash cannot do either since they're not linked to a codebase. And last but not least, we have Grockbot from the team behind Grock. Its roots are in XAI,

5:02which was founded by Elon Musk in 2023. SpaceX acquired XAI in February 2026, and then Grockbot launched that August, initially starting out as an internal prototype. I'll note that this is separate from Grock Chat. Grockbot offers paid sign up and is included with existing eligible Grock plans. You can use it on Mac, Windows, or iOS. Grockbot puts multiple bots with different roles front and center. You can essentially create different bots, assign them different roles, run work in parallel, and even have the bots communicate and pass tasks along between themselves. So, for example, I've created bots for different parts of my life. I have Ellie as my main one. Ellie codes for my

5:43coding accounts. Ellie eats for my food account, for example. One's for work, one's for other personal stuff. So, it really helps me organize the different chats to keep track of the different lanes within my life. And it's really cool cuz the bots can even message each other. So, in this case, I was trying to sign in to my Tik Tok/ Instagram accounts on Ellie Eats and Ellie Codes, and it noticed that there were two sessions going at once, so the bots were messaging each other to make sure they weren't conflicting. That being said, even though they are different bots, they do use the same persistent computer, so there can be conflicts, but

6:18you can log into multiple different accounts at once, so you in theory could connect both your personal work here. And you can give them different roles, too. The website suggests research, communications, travel, and bug reproduction. So, overall, these are the four different AI assistants side by side. Even though they all seem very similar, there are nuances within each one. So, Instinct, I feel like, is best for everyday personal help. My favorite part about it is just how convenient the interface is being reachable on iMessage or via call. So, anything shopping

6:50related, it's super easy to send over. Metamuse, I think the biggest advantage is for those business and creator tools. So, anything Instagram related has been super great, though. It is also able to handle things and other admin tools that Instinct also offers. I guess another advantage of this is it's probably the most accessible being that it is free. OpenAI dots. The biggest strength there is the work context and coding. Again, I've yet to try out Claw Duet, so I'm really curious how this one will stand against that since those are the two that I use primarily for coding. But you do need pro or business premium plans to

7:28access. And then Grockbot I have personally really been loving recently for my personal life. The parallel bot rolls are just super helpful to organize everything. But you do need to pay in order to use it. Hopefully you guys found this helpful. Let me know if there's anything you want me to dig deeper into and what personal AI agents are you guys using. Let me know in the comments below. Otherwise, like and subscribe and stick around for more

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