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Meta's Muse AI agent downloads are surging. Here's how it compares to ChatGPT, Grok and Claude

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Why This Matters

Meta's rapid rise of its Muse AI agent app signals intensifying competition in the consumer AI assistant market, challenging established players like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. The surge in downloads suggests growing mainstream consumer interest in AI agents that can autonomously handle everyday digital tasks, a shift from AI being primarily a developer or enthusiast tool.

Key Takeaways

Meta's Muse AI personal agent tool has only been out for nearly two weeks, and it's topping the app store charts.

The social media giant's Muse app is currently ahead of popular services like OpenAI' s ChatGPT, Polymarket and Kashi on Apple 's iOS app store for the category of free smartphone programs in the U.S. as of Monday. It's also ahead of rival AI apps like Anthropic 's Claude and SpaceXAI's Grok AI, in addition to the Facebook-parent's own Meta AI app.

The Muse app overtook ChatGPT as the leading iOS free app in the U.S. on Friday, and racked up 730,000 downloads over about five days after it launched on Sep. 8, according to the analytics firm Sensor Tower. As of Monday, Muse has logged over 2.5 million downloads since its debut, the market intelligence company said.

Muse's cumulative downloads topped Claude and Grok during the same 13-day post-launch window, with those apps recording 400,000 and 200,000 downloads, respectively. ChatGPT obtained 3.1 million downloads during that time frame, Sensor Tower said.

The firm noted that the apps had staggered platform releases split between Apple and Google Play, which would impact their totals. Sensor Tower said that as of Monday, Muse has garnered around 1.5 million and 1.1 million downloads on the iOS and Android app stores.

Meta pitched the app as a way for consumers to manage and direct supercharged digital assistants that can perform a number of tasks across the web, like filling out electronic forms and organizing email inboxes. The app, which is powered by Meta's Muse Spark family of AI models, represents a major push by CEO Mark Zuckerberg into the AI agent market, which the freely available OpenClaw tool helped popularize earlier this year among developers and technology enthusiasts.

"I think up to this point most of the agentic use cases have not really been for normal people," Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon told CNBC in a "Squawk on the Street" interview on Monday. "Now you've got Meta's Muse and other agents out there that are starting to maybe get more potential for more broad-based adoption."