Meta's Muse AI assistant tops US App Store in 10 days; Alibaba pushes Personal Agent
新智元 · wechat · 2026-09-23
Meta's personal AI assistant Muse hit #1 on the US App Store free chart within ten days of launch, pushing ChatGPT down and sending Meta shares up 11.43% on Monday; Wells Fargo raised its price target from $640 to $796. Muse pairs each user with a cloud computer and browser: it booked a rebooked flight and recovered a $250 delay compensation in 5 minutes for one user, and spent three days clearing another's 160,000 unread Gmail promotions. Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang calls it 'the first AI for people who don't trust AI'; Ben Thompson says Spark 1.3 isn't frontier-level but it's the most accessible agent he's used.
Alibaba used the Yunqi conference to announce it is accelerating 'Personal Agent' built on Qwen3.8 for its 300 million users: a unified Context for long-term personalization (e.g., adaptive marathon training using glucose-monitor data), professional financial research packaged as callable Skills, and an open platform spanning 20+ domains with over 1,000 merchants. To make agent loops affordable at scale, Qwen claims 20% better responses with 40% lower per-user token consumption.
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