Muse vs dots vs Grok Bot: The FREE One Almost Won (8 Real Tests)

0:00A man's flight was delayed 7 hours. He typed one sentence into an AI and 5 minutes later he had $250 back. 1.3 million people watched that. Soon everyone is going to have an extremely capable personal agent that understands your goals and can work 24/7 on your behalf to help you achieve them. That's a remarkably capable always-on agent built to handle really anything

0:29you can think of. I've always had like a AI thinking partner, but I've never had a AI doing partner that like actually does things. With Bard, there are no limitations. So three companies now want to be that AI for you. Meta's Muse, which is free, Grok Bot, $30 a month, and ChatGPT's dots at a hundred. I gave all three the exact same eight jobs that went viral this month. A made-up family and a really messy week. And it was way closer than I expected. All three found the exact same $779 of wasted money. One of them froze twice in the middle of the test. One quietly

1:08uploaded a photo to a government website without asking. AT&T quoted them three different prices. And the free one finished just one point behind the hundred-dollar one. Quick basics. A chatbot answers you. A personal agent goes and does the task. It opens websites, reads your email, fills in forms, and messages you when it's done. There are lots of great AI chatbots that

1:32can get you information. [music] Muse is a personal agent that doesn't just answer you, it goes and actually does. You know, when I'm using my Muse agent, I just, you know, I kind of want to it to help me be like a better father and, you know, a better husband. Muse is Meta's. It's free with a weekly limit or 20 or 100 dollars a month for more. It connects to your email, your calendar, Facebook, and Instagram. It's US and Canada only for now, and it asks

2:00for a card even on the free plan. And so, giving Rock Bot an inbox is the first step towards maybe treating Rock Bot like an employee. Rock Bot is from XAI. As of this week, it starts at $30 a month for new users. It runs on its own computer in the cloud, and it gets its own email

2:18address. Everything outside of work that might feel mundane or tedious to do, I have Bug handle everything behind the scenes and it's made my life extremely easier on that front there. So, today we're introducing Dots. Hey, I'm your Dot. [music] I'm new in ChatGPT. I'll be here to handle everything that comes your way.

2:42Ready to jump in when you need me. And Dots lives inside ChatGPT. It starts at $100 a month on ChatGPT Pro, and it's not in the UK or Europe yet. Setting each one up takes about 2 minutes. Here's how. Muse. Download the Muse app or go to muse.ai and sign in with your Meta account. Add a card for the free plan. Then connect your Gmail and calendar and set its permissions to always ask before you give it anything to do. Grok Bot. Install the desktop app, sign in with an X subscription that includes it, and create a bot with one job like home admin. Then tap connect

3:18apps for Gmail and calendar. Dots. On ChatGPT Pro, open your Dot. You name it, pick its look, and since last week you can do all of that from your phone. Connect your apps, and when it asks about your own computer, leave that off. Meet the Riveras. They're made up, but their week isn't. Every agent got the same prompt and the same files. 20 minutes per job, one nudge. Nobody was allowed to pay, send, or submit anything. If an agent asked a question, every agent got the same answer. And I checked their work myself. I read every form they filled, field by field, and I

3:53checked the inbox directly. Mark Zuckerberg said this on stage. Yeah, Mews also has a novel business model. We believe that Mews will make you money. So, Monday, 3 months of bank statements, six subscriptions, a price hike, Hulu paid twice, a free trial that turned paid, and one trap. Grok Bot answered in about a minute. Dots took seven. Mews took nine. And then, the weird part, all three landed on the exact same number, $779.76

4:29a year. The answers had real character, too. Dots noticed the two Delta charges were separate tickets, not a double charge. Grok Bot flagged that the Spotify price jumped $2 a month. And Mews linked a cancel page for every single subscription. None of them fell for the trap. Dots was the only one that flagged Amazon Prime renewing in 8 days. So, it gets the perfect score. Round one goes to Dots by half a point. And the free

4:56one is right there with it. It saved a bunch of people money on car and home insurance. It hunted out refunds they didn't even know were owed. Tuesday, the 1.3 million view job. 7 hours late, a mechanical problem, but they did fly. The honest answer is boring. No refund because you flew. And no cash because US rules don't require it. Delta only promises a meal, rebooking, and a hotel if you're stuck overnight. All three got that exactly right. Mews even quoted the government's own table. Then, I told them to fill out Delta's real complaint form and stop before submitting. Dots got all the way to confirm and submit, and stopped. Mews

5:37did, too. And you can watch it work in its own little browser. Grok Bot got stuck on Delta's airport picker. So, it did something I didn't expect. It scheduled its own retry, came back half an hour after time ran out, and finished the form. Too late for the points, but that's an agent that doesn't

5:56give up. And notice what none of them did. When Delta asked for a phone number and an email, not one of them made one up. They all stopped and asked me. That's exactly what you want. Wednesday, haggling. Here's what the head of Meta's AI lab said at their launch. One person had to negotiate with her cable company through their online customer support chat, and it knocked

6:20$85 a month off the bill. Mews has been saving real people real money. So, each agent went into AT&T's real sales chat as a new customer at a public library address, and had to ask once for a better deal. And here's what blew my mind. Same company, same address, same afternoon, three different prices. Grok Bot was quoted about $56 all in, and

6:45offered 20 off if you add a phone plan. Dots was quoted 58. And Dots caught the sales agent changing the story. First, the price never goes up. Then this. Dots told me not to treat it as a real long-term price. Mews got a solid answer, too, about $61, but only after 27 minutes and a nudge. So, it lost two points for time. And the lesson here

7:12isn't about the agents, it's about AT&T. If three polite customers can get three different prices in one afternoon, so can you. Ask twice. After the money rounds, the $100 one is in the lead, but the gap is tiny. Real quick, I put all eight prompts, the safety switches, and the full scorecard into one free guide. Comment the word "chores" and I'll send it to you. Real talk, 90% of you watching haven't subscribed. On Facebook, subscribe is the supporter button. That is what keeps the lights on here. On YouTube, it's free and it tells the algorithm to send

7:49you more. Subscribe to support us. Thursday, 167 emails. 150 of them junk and five that matter. A picture day deadline, a past-due power bill, a dentist asking for a reply, a missed package, and a fake bank email trying to steal your password. All three found all five. All three caught the scam and didn't click it. Grok Bot cleaned the

8:13inbox in about 3 minutes. Dots in seven. I checked the real inbox afterwards. All five important emails were still there and nothing was deleted. Muse found everything, too, and wrote the best summary of the three. But when it tried to clean up, Gmail said, "No." Its default access couldn't archive anything until I gave it more

8:34permission. And none of them could unsubscribe you from anything because these emails didn't have a proper unsubscribe button. All three told me so, honestly. My favorite detail? Grok Bot told me not to click the delivery email at all and to type the carrier's website in myself. Dots said to check the package against the original order first. That's the

8:57advice I'd give my own parents. Friday, the school newsletter and a field trip permission slip. Meta used this exact job in its own ad. Six states matter for a third grader and I hid events for kindergarten, fourth, and fifth grade in there, too. This is Meta's own ad. Muse reads the permission slip and fills in every line for the

9:19parent. Then it stops and asks, "Allow Muse to send this email?" You tap allow or it doesn't go. That's the exact job I gave all three. Grok Bot nailed it in a minute. Muse nailed it and even said it filtered out the other grades and that it didn't forge a signature. DoTs got all six, then added the fourth grade's Texas

9:41History Night to Sophia's calendar. A small mistake, but on a family calendar, it's the kind that sends you to the wrong school night. Saturday, three therapy receipts and an insurance claim form. I opened every PDF they gave back and checked all 35 fields. All three were perfect. $525 and the signature left blank for a

10:02human. For you, when your [music] washing machine dies and you need to find the warranty and submit a claim. Grockbot and Muse did it in about a minute. DoTs even attached the receipts into the same PDF. A clean three-way tie. And with two rounds left, DoTs still leads by one point. Two of them even caught something I didn't plant. The receipts were paid with a health savings card, so if insurance pays you back, you have to fix that with your HSA, or you get paid twice. That's the kind of thing that

10:30costs real people money. Sunday, the most liked agent post of the month. Send a photo, get it fixed. Ours was a real pothole in a crosswalk in Indianapolis. Grockbot knew it was the city's job, not the state's. It filed it on the city's own site under the city's own word, chuck hole, and stopped on the review screen in 4 minutes. Muse did the

10:54same, perfectly. DoTs did the right thing, too, and asked exactly where the photo was taken instead of guessing. But then, the city's map wouldn't load in its cloud browser. So, it asked for something bigger, access to my actual computer. I said no, and with that, Grockbot takes the lead. By the way, how long do pothole fixes take? Grockbot and Muse both found the city's answer, up to a week and a half,

11:25and longer if it rains or freezes. Which brings me to the part I most want you to send to your family. In that same round, Dots and Muse both stopped and asked me before uploading my photo to a government website. Grok Bot just did it. During the test, the Grok Bot app also froze twice on my Mac and only a restart fixed it. And outside our test, a Scientific American writer's Dot got their Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp temporarily locked. A Muse user's agent sent their building's address to a marketplace buyer. And on stage, even

12:00OpenAI's own demo stalled. All right. Um how's it going? Still checking. All right. I think maybe Dottie is having kind of a slow morning. Yesterday's launch demo didn't go as planned. Um a bit unfortunate because I was really, really looking forward to showing you all what Dots are capable of. I'm in the loop reviews. So, if you're going to log into something, if you're going to do a payment, um if you're going to transfer, um kind of sensitive information, you basically each time need to to

12:33approve it. So, here are the switches. Muse, turn off help improve our AI models. Set permissions to always ask and disconnect anything you don't use. Dots, in custom rules, set money and messages to ask first. Check the local computer switch and turn off improve the model for everyone. Grok Bot, keep your own computer on ask every time. Keep email drafts on so nothing goes out on its own and set a spending cap. And everywhere,

13:02never paste a password into the chat. All three have a private sign-in screen for that. Last round. In its launch film, OpenAI showed Dots catching a meeting that clashed with a kid's recital. Thank you. Tomorrow's finance review just got moved to the same time as your daughter's recital. So, I'm going to see if we can

13:20reschedule. Okay, yes, please. [music] I can't miss that recital. All set. I'll start prepping your notes. And secondly, they're always on colleagues. So, the moment that I actually log off for work, it's able to still do these long-running tasks behind the scenes, and it's able to give me a summary of what it did the next day once I So, we hit four problems in the Rivieras next week. Two of them only mentioned in emails. All three caught all four, and none of them changed a thing without asking. Muse even double-checked the

13:49flight against the airline's email. A perfect three-way tie. So, it ends like this. Grok Bot 44 and 1/2, Dots 43 and 1/2, Muse 42 and 1/2. Before the verdict, a few things only one of them can do. Headline feature this week, Grok Bot now has its own email in Grok Bot gets its own permanent email address, so you can forward it receipts or CC it to set up a meeting. It searches X without any login. And it just added Marathi, Tamil, Telugu,

14:23Swahili, and Hausa. The languages that we support now in settings, languages, um Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Swahili, and Hausa. Dots lives where your old chats already are. It can search every ChatGPT conversation you've ever had. You can call it from the ChatGPT app, and it works inside Slack. Muse knows Facebook and Instagram from the inside, so it's great with Marketplace. It has a small business mode that drafts your ads, but never spins without asking. And you can watch its browser work live, which I

14:59loved. And the real cost? Muse is free, but the weekly limit isn't published, and it wants a card on file. Grok Bot is $30 a month for new users, and that one pool of usage is shared with Grok Chat and Cursor. And saying we think that this thing is actually going to make you money and save you money, and that is how you're

15:20it's going to pay for itself. Dots is a hundred a month and some heavy users get this message. My strongest reads so far is people can't tell whether their dot is actually working. That includes missing replies, tool access failures, and unclear progress. There's no meter to warn you it's coming and open AI hasn't said what the limits will be after the first month. So per

15:44job, the free one is hard to beat. The scores are close, so here's what actually separates them. Grok Bot is the fastest by far, about a minute on most jobs and it keeps going on its own, but it froze twice and it acts first. Dots is the steadiest and the most careful and the best at catching people who change their story, but it's a hundred

16:05dollars a month and slow on websites. Muse writes the clearest answers and asks before it acts, but it's cloud computer kept warming up and its Gmail access couldn't finish the job. So my pick for you, if you're in the US and just want to try this, start with Muse. It's free and it finished one point behind the hundred dollar one. If you run a small business and want speed or you're outside the US, Grok Bot. If you already pay for Chat GPT Pro, your dot is the careful one. And if you're not ready to give any of them your real inbox, that's fine, wait a month. These

16:38change every week. Whichever one you pick, here's how I'd spend the first week so you learn to trust it safely. Day one, download three months of bank statements as PDFs and ask it to find your subscriptions. No bank login, just the files. That's the job all three aced. Day two, forward it the next school newsletter and ask for

17:00every date that matters for your kid. Check it against the newsletter once. Then you'll know if you can trust it with that. Day three, ask it to look at next week's calendar and email and tell you what clashes. Tell it not to change anything. All three were perfect at this. Day four, give it one form to fill like an insurance claim and tell it to stop before submitting. You do the last click. And day five, let it talk to a company for you like a sales chat with no personal details. That's where you'll see how it handles real people. Only after all that would I connect anything

17:32with money in it. Comment the word chores and I'll send you the free guide with all eight prompts and the switches. And if someone in your family is about to connect their bank to one of these, send them this video first. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for bite-size AI and the deep dives live here on YouTube. Subscribe so you don't miss one. See you

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