Google Muse rolls out AI phone calling in slow beta

Google's AI assistant Muse has gained phone calling, now in a small-scale rollout. Multiple early users report positive experiences, and the feature is widely seen as fulfilling the automated calling demo Google once showed at Google IO.

Confirmed

• Google's Josh Levine (jrlevine) confirmed Muse + calling is "the industry's most open secret" and his favorite Muse feature; the team is ramping up access very slowly and soliciting feedback from users with access.
• User ajaysurie shared a hands-on trial calling it a very good experience; Alexandr Wang reshared it.
• User annetgriffin announced receiving beta access to Muse's AI phone calling and praised Alexandr Wang and his team for genuinely shipping.
• User giffmana was surprised Muse can place calls, recalling Sundar Pichai's old Google IO demo that never broadly shipped, and suggesting Muse may finally deliver it.
• In the ensuing reminiscence thread, rustyryan noted Google Duplex did actually launch years ago and still serves traffic.

Why it matters

• Muse is extending beyond text chat into real-world actions like phone calls, a key signal of AI assistant capability landing in practice.
• Seen as a successor to the Duplex lineage, it turns an old high-profile demo into a user-facing product, with the team deliberately controlling rollout pace for stability and iteration.

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