Meta Muse hits 5M downloads in 22 days, nearly 3x faster than ChatGPT
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-13
AI by Aakash published a full guide to Meta's free personal AI agent Muse: 5M downloads in 22 days (ChatGPT took 56), with US daily downloads already beating Threads, WhatsApp, and Facebook. The piece dissects how a non-frontier model became the most-used consumer AI launch since ChatGPT. It also covers the week's news: Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/$0.50 per million input/output tokens — 10x cheaper than Haiku 4.5 ($1/$5) with better performance, 75% cheaper on real work (author's bill fell 80%).
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