GoKawiilMeta's Muse AI app hits No.1 on US iPhone App Store, passing ChatGPT
Meta's Muse, an AI agent app launched earlier this month, has climbed to the top of Apple's free iPhone app rankings in the US, pushing OpenAI's ChatGPT out of first place. The surge follows Meta's expansion of Muse to Mac desktops, though that version doesn't count toward App Store rankings since it's downloaded via the web.
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Muse's rise shows Meta betting on a more personified, chat-like approach to AI agents, a style also seen in SpaceXAI's Grok Bot, contrasting with OpenAI and Anthropic's integration of agentic features into existing assistant apps. With Apple also rolling out a revamped Siri capable of system-level actions, the competition to define how consumers interact with AI agents on mobile devices is intensifying rapidly.
- Muse by Meta overtook ChatGPT as the top free iPhone app in the US.
- Meta recently expanded Muse to Mac, though that doesn't affect App Store rankings.
- Meta and SpaceXAI favor personified, chat-style AI agents, while Apple's new Siri focuses on system-level task automation.
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