Meta's Muse hits 2.8M installs in 12 days: AI agents thrive on US friction, not China's
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-24
Meta's AI personal assistant Muse hit 2.8M installs in 12 days with 642K US mobile DAUs, topping the US App Store free chart and out-downloading ChatGPT. Analysis of 654 public use cases (FUNDA) shows 19.6% were saving money/refunds: users had it negotiate an AT&T broadband bill from $85/500Mbps to $40/1Gbps, cut Verizon Fios from $134 to $64, and switch streaming services by NFL schedule ($310 to $181/season). 49 quantifiable cases totaled $35,426 in annualized savings (mean $723, median $490); 62.8% of cases were "Life Admin."
The piece argues Muse works in the US because friction costs are high (siloed systems, fax-bound processes) while China's super-apps already eliminated that friction, and because Muse (which runs on a cloud VM) benefits from open APIs (Gmail OAuth, Expedia, Shopify, Stripe) and full web availability. But sustainability is doubtful: savings are one-time stock harvesting, and Amazon has already started restricting Muse's access. The author predicts US openness will be re-evaluated in the agent era and may converge toward China-style closed ecosystems.
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