Ben Thompson: Muse is by far the best, most approachable personal agent yet
sudoraohacker · x · 2026-09-22
Brandon Carl spotlights Ben Thompson's take on Muse, calling it "by a significant margin the best and most approachable personal agent product" he has tried, crediting Alexandr Wang's team. The key insight: the underlying model doesn't need to be frontier — echoing how Xerox PARC invented the GUI but Apple popularized it. Productization may matter more than raw model capability.
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