Ben Thompson: Muse Is Good Enough to Test Whether Consumer AI Breaks Beyond Search
soleio · x · 2026-09-11
Stratechery's Ben Thompson argues Muse is good enough — and the overall agent experience impactful enough — that it will be the test of AI in the consumer space: if it doesn't take off, glorified search may be as far as consumer AI gets. His framing: "Human scale, with computers, instead of computer scale, in place of humans."
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