Meta’s Muse is possibly the best AI agent out there. The issue is is I don’t think it’s a right fit for a lot of people. In this video, I cover what Meta’s Muse is, what it does so well, how it compares to Hermes, Open Claw, Grobbot, Chat, GPT were Claude Co, and if you are a part of the group, I think should actually switch to it. By the end of this video, you’ll be a master of Meta’s Muse and will know if you should be taking your talents to meta. Now, let’s lock in and get into it. So, this is MetaMuse, the most talked about AI agent at the moment. And there are some things in here that really, really impress me. The first thing I’m going to do is take you through everything it does, all its capabilities, all its features, how to use it, what I’ve been doing with it. After that, I will tell you who it’s for. So, who is the actual group of people I think should switch to it. I don’t think everyone should switch to it, but I will let you know right after if you are one of those people that should be switching to it. I’ll go through all of the strengths and weaknesses, and then I will rank it. I’ll stack rank it, how it compares to other AI agents, and I’ll show you what my current stack is, which AI agents I actually am using. But let’s go through it. Here is Metamuse. It is what I call a godthread agent. This is a term I’m now coining called the Godthread agent. What does that mean? It is not like Grockbot where it is kind of multi- aent. You have a bunch of different named agents. It’s not like chat GBT work where you have a whole bunch of different threads for one agent. It is a god thread agent which basically means you have one chat. You can make side chats. Those are kind of like exceptions but it’s built around just having one mega chat you do everything in. Now I’ve gone back and forth on do I like the god thread way or do I like the grobbot multi- aent way or do I like the one agent with multiple threads way. I think it really depends on what kind of work you do. I think for the more hardcore people who use AI agents for a lot of different types of tasks. I actually do think the kind of multi- aent multi-thread way is good to go. But for the people, and this is a little spoiler on who I think this is built for, the people who are like the reserve me a movie or reserve me a restaurant or get this bill negotiated down use case. I think this is actually a better form factor for them. I call that the make me a reservation AI agent crowd. The make me a restaurant reservation crowd doesn’t need 10 different named agents to make a reservation at a restaurant. They just need one agent they can quickly go on their phone to open up and say, “Hey, find me a reservation at a Greek restaurant near me.” So, it is one God thread, but there are so many little details in here that I actually really love. So, over on the right hand side, I instantly fell in love with this feature, and I wish this was built into every other agent. They have an activities feed so you can see everything you’ve done with your agent that day by day by time. This is brilliant. I wish I had this for everything I do on my computer. I wish I just had I don’t know if you’re like me but sometimes at the end of the day you feel a little down cuz you feel like you could have got way more done. And I feel like this is like the antidote to that where at the end of the day you can go see everything you got done and actually like wait I was way more productive than I thought. I don’t know if it’s a part of the human condition where you just always think you got less done than you really did. But this is great. I come back to CNA and go, “Oh, wow. I actually got more than I thought I actually enjoy.” It makes me feel a lot better about my day. So, I love this. They also organize a whole bunch of other things here. I really like different approvals. So, when it needs approvals for you, upcoming tasks, it has. So, like this is your crown jobs. And then identity. This is another thing I really enjoy that they did. You kind of have your two sides of the customization spectrum when it comes to AI agents. You have Hermes, which is customize literally everything. Everything is tinkerable. Everything’s a drop down. Change everything you want. Then you have Grockbot where you really don’t customize anything. You don’t choose models. You don’t edit personalities. You don’t see memories, anything like that. Then Metamuse is kind of in the middle where you can tinker and edit anything you want, but it’s kind of hidden away. So for the power users, you have that option, which is great. I do wish I could change the personalities on Grockbot. I do feel like kind of the way Grockbot talks is a little weird sometimes. I don’t quite understand what it’s always saying. It kind of has like Claude Opus syndrome where it says things sometimes but doesn’t really mean anything. Metam uses kind of that sweet spot where it’s hidden but you can find it for the power users. That’s sick. There’s also voice functionality coming soon. They’re talking about how you can use voice to talk to your agent. Well, speaking of voice, that brings us to today’s sponsor who’s paying my bills. If you’re building an AI agent with voice, which every AI agent out there nowadays has to have voice, you need to make sure your AI agent is able to properly listen to you and talk to you. And that’s where Assembly AI comes in. 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And boom, there you go. Look at how good that it’s literally real time as I’m speaking. You can use this for AI receptionists, personal assistants, and even like customer support agents. Assembly AI handles listening. you connect it to whatever AI model you want. Get your API key for free at the link down below. And thanks to Assembly AI for supporting the channel. They also have many different other features here. I really like some of these features. So, one of the main use cases a lot of people do are like morning briefs, afternoon briefs, content briefs, different things like that. They built a feed so you can just take all the brief stuff out of your agent and put it into your feed. So, you can customize this feed any way you want. One of the big things I do with all my agents is like I have it update me and give me a brief on tech and AI releases every single day so I can spend less time on social media here. Brilliant. You can just customize your feed so you get that information right in your feed. You don’t have to kind of spam your AI agent with like crown jobs and things to get that information. It just lives in its own feed. Next is ideas. This is just like custom recommended ideas that Meta came up with that you can use with your MetaMuse. I talk about this a lot and that’s blank canvas syndrome. I think a lot of people have which is they get a blank canvas. They get an AI agent you can do anything in the world with but they because it’s a blank canvas they don’t know what to do with it. Right? They get less done because it is a blank canvas. MetaMuse fights this by giving you a whole bunch of uh different recommendations for what your AI agent can do. So if you come in here and you don’t know what to do with it, here’s a whole bunch of recommendations. Goals. I actually sneaky love this. This might actually be my favorite feature of them all in Metamuse, which is goals, which is basically the brain dump to reverse prompt I talk about all the time, but built into the AI agent. So, you can click a goal, it asks you a bunch of questions, right? So, I clicked on the goal to grow my creator business. And what did it do? It went in and started asking me a bunch of multi-choice questions on that goal, kind of coaxing me to brain dump in it. And then from there it reverse prompted. So it basically said here’s everything I can do based on that goal. One of my goals was I want to grow on LinkedIn. It came in and came up with a bunch of ideas on how it could help me grow on LinkedIn. It actually ended up building me a carousel for LinkedIn. It’s not something I ever thought of doing with this. It helped me come up with it. It helped me find the unknown unknowns because of this goal functionality. So I actually am a really big fan of this goal functionality. Anything that helps you come up and uncover unknown unknowns I think is going to be massive when it comes to AI because I think that really is people’s biggest challenge when it comes to AI is just not knowing what the hell to do with it. This goals functionality is fantastic for that. It also ensures you get productive things done with your AI agent which is awesome. Then we have library and you know I’ll get into this a little bit later too which is some of the strengths of Metamuse over the other agents. One of the huge strengths of Metamuse is that it is way more proactive than other AI agents. And one of those things it’s super proactive about is creating artifacts. For instance, I said, “Hey, research me so you can find out who I am and get to know, you know, what I do and my career and things like that. It automatically created uh this website with everything it knows about me.” I didn’t ask it to create this website. Now it has an artifact with all its information on me, which is sick. The first thing I did with Metamus is askked like, “Hey, can you do research on like what people are doing with Metuse? What are the different use cases people are doing online?” Boom. Without me asking, it created this artifact, which is basically this HTML site that has the top use cases people are doing with Muse. That’s sick. That now lives in my library. I didn’t ask for any of this. It is super super proactive with just like creating artifacts, creating helpful visuals. I don’t ask for any of this and I think it’s really really powerful. I think the next objection people are going to give me over this is, okay, it’s building all these sites, it’s making images, videos, podcasts. Alex, won’t that like run out of usage? When I’m in Grockbot and it makes me a video, there goes my usage for the week. Won’t this run out my usage? Well, here’s another strength of Metamuse. You get a spectacular amount of usage. They give you a tremendous amount of tokens completely for free in Metamuse. That is amazing. There are different meta paid plans built in like Instagram and Facebook that give you even more usage on top. It’s kind of confusing, but what you need to know is you get a lot of usage and you get a lot of that for free. It’s one of the benefits of this being made by a company that is getting revenue many many other ways other than AI, right? Like Meta, they get most of their revenue from Instagram ads, from selling like cheap Chinese t-shirts on Instagram in the ads, right? That’s how they get their money. Now they can take those profits and funnel it into their AI stuff like Metamuse. So you get tons of usage. So that’s great as well. One of the biggest strengths of Grockbot is its deep integration with X, right? Like that’s its moat is no other AI agent can get you content from X post things like that and that’s really helpful. Well, Meta their moat is they can get a lot of content from Instagram and Facebook. So, for instance, I can say things like, “Can you find me an Instagram reel that talks about Muse? I want to see what other people are saying about Muse.” So, we get a Casey Neistat reel it links to. Does this super quick, by the way. Boom. Takes me to Instagram. And here’s a Casey Neistat uh Instagram video on Muse. Boom. Deep integration with Instagram. Just something mildly ironic here. I feel like if you split up where the AI doomers are and where the AI positive people are, I feel like there’s more AI positive people on X and like all the AI doomers are on Instagram. So, it’s kind of funny that this is linked to Instagram and uh Grockbots’s linked to X as you can see. Fair warning from the comments. Reactions are pretty polarized. Lots of meta privacy skepticis. I think that’s pretty funny. Anyway, but this if you value it is one of the modes of Metamuse is that it can get all this data from Instagram and Facebook. Now, I’d argue, and I don’t want to get on my soap box here, I’d argue for most people, consuming more Instagram content is probably a negative, but there is a group of people where getting more Instagram content is hugely positive. I’m going to get into this a little bit more later, but the ecommerce crowd, right? Like, if you are in e-commerce, the best place on planet Earth to be on is Instagram. You can make like multi-million dollars with e-commerce using Instagram ads. That’s amazing. And so for those types of people, this is going to be an unreal integration. Now, I think when it comes to Facebook, most people just think, “Oh, isn’t that where my aunt goes? Isn’t that where all my grandparents and ants go?” Yes, that is true. Facebook is just people’s aunts and grandmothers. But Facebook does have something that’s still pretty interesting, and that is Facebook Marketplace. So, there’s a deep Facebook marketplace integration with Menuse. If you’re trying to pick up more Mac minis like me, you can just go in here and say, “Hey, can you find me Mac minis on Facebook Marketplace?” And it’ll find you a bunch of Facebook Mac minis. That is really sick as well. I mean, I feel like there’s like business opportunities you can do here, arbitrageing different things. I don’t know. I feel like there’s something here when it comes to automating Facebook Marketplace. I don’t know what it is just yet, but if you’re one of those people that like live in Facebook Marketplace, I actually know there’s a lot of people like that, this is going to be great for you because now you can pretty much automate Facebook Marketplace. MetaMuse has fantastic computer use as well, but here’s the exception to that. MetaMuse is completely cloudbased. There is no local component of this. It can’t control your computer. There’s no local computer use whatsoever. Everything is in the cloud. It has its own VM and all the work it does there. Grockpot on the other hand has both cloud and local. It’s up to you what you want to do. While Hermes is basically completely local and chat GBT is both cloud and local. So this in my eyes is kind of a weakness as a power user. I want it to control my computer. I wanted to be able to go through my tail scale network and go to my DGX Spark, go to my RTX5090 computer, go to my Omachi computer and change things around and load local models and do things like that. That’s a big use case for me. So for me, that is a massive weakness, the fact that it can’t do anything locally. But for most people, the make me a reservation at a restaurant crowd, that doesn’t matter, right? You just want them to go online, their virtual computer, and make you a reservation. you want it to go and get you a ticket to Resident Evil tomorrow night in PaloAlto, it can do that for you. It does that really, really well. As you can see here, it got me a ticket for Resident Evil tomorrow night. I’m super excited about that. It did it in like 10 seconds. Here’s another strength. It is unbelievably fast. It is like lightning fast. So, you’re getting tons of usage lightning fast. The Meta AI team uh clearly turned things around and have things going in their favor lately, which is great to see. It’s I I’d really like them to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic and SpaceX. So, what we’ve seen so far is Metam Muse is extremely fast. Its computer use is incredible online in VM. You get tons and tons of usage. It is extremely proactive. I’d say even more proactive than the most proactive agent I’ve ever used before this, which was Instinct. I’ve been testing Instinct on the side. I’d say it’s big strength is it proactivity, thinking of things to do and just doing them. MetaMuse actually beats that in my eyes. Its deep connection with Instagram and Facebook is great. Especially if you are in the ecommerce world. Like if you’re in the e-commerce world and you’re doing meta ads and all that to to grow your e-commerce business, then that is fantastic and it is absolutely brilliant at the make me a reservation use cases. It’s just great at that. So, real quick, we’ll go over strengths and weaknesses and I’ll tell you who this is for and if I can recommend you to actually use it. It strengths dirt cheap. You get tons of usage for absolutely free, which is incredible. Basically unheard of in the AI age. It’s lightning fast. Anything you ask to do, it does it very, very, very fast. It’s super proactive. It’s building artifacts, websites, podcasts, videos, just out of the blue. You’re not even asking for it. The Instagram Facebook integration is perfect if that’s what you’re into. I’m going to be honest. The Instagram Facebook integration is unbelievable. It’s great. It pulls reels, posts, whatever you need. It’s excellent. Fully customizable. So unlike Rockbot, you can customize the memories, personality, all that. And the mobile app is very, very strong. Now for weaknesses, there are three pretty major weaknesses for me. One is the weak ecosystem. Metamus’s ecosystem is Instagram and Facebook. That is it. If you use Grockbot, the ecosystem is cursor. So you get cursor cloud agents in it, which are excellent. You get X, so you get all the X social media posts and you get some other things that may or may not be coming soon that I may or may not have heard of uh from a birdie, right? They have a very strong ecosystem. Chat GBT work, they have a strong ecosystem. You get codec, so you get all its coding abilities built in. You get chat GBT voice, which is great. Built into chat GBT, you get their best-in-class image gen. You get other things like their little microcontroller. I have it creator micro keyboard, which is great. They have a very strong ecosystem. So if you’re using the Chad GBT work agent, you get to use the entire ecosystem of Chad GBT products. For Metamuse, the ecosystem is Instagram and Facebook. I haven’t been on Facebook in 15 years. And for me, Instagram, I it’s just not for me. Instagram is not for me. I will just leave it at that. But I I do not want to spend more time my life on Instagram or pull in Instagram reels. So that ecosystem doesn’t do it for me. Now if that ecosystem does it for you then this might be a great option right like if you are super as I said before e-commerce the Instagram ecosystem is actually fantastic but right but that that’s all their ecosystem is at Metamuse is Instagram and Facebook there’s no frontier models right so you’re using the meta models which the metas-park model is very good you know it’s like it gets the job done it’s not weak you’re not going to really complain about the intelligence of this uh agent at all but it’s not Astra right it’s not fable so you’re not getting that like next level give it a prompt to build something and it oneshots this absolutely incredible product and it’s cloud only. So if you’re a power user like someone like me who you expect a lot out of your AI agent you expect it to jump around your tail scale network control all your different computers load local models things like that it’s not going to be able to do that it just has its cloud VM so who is this for who would I recommend Metamuse for? So, if you’re one of those book me a reservation AI agent users, like if you’re one of those people that like you don’t want to Google search the restaurant you go to, then click reserve a table, like you need an AI agent to do that, this is perfect for you, right? It’s perfect for those people who just need a VM cloud and an agent goes on it and books your reservations. Great for you. If you’re super into Instagram, right? If you’re in the Instagram ecosystem, if you do e-commerce and run Instagram ads, or you just want to get reals or see what the latest thirst traps on Instagram are, great for you. That’s not for me. I spend most of my time on social media on X trying to get like news and like learn about AI and stuff like that. But if that other Instagram stuffs for you, you go do that. If cost is a factor, this is a great great option, probably the best option, right? It is basically free. Anyone can use it. I haven’t paid a penny yet and I’ve used it a ton. If you want the absolute cutting edge, as I said, there are a lot of features here that are the cutting edge of AI agents. It’s so proactive. It builds you HTML sites and artifacts for everything you do. That’s really, really helpful. It’s also blazingly fast. It just feels really, really nice to use. The speed is incredible. And if you just need an assistant, if you just need something that checks your email, sees when your next calendar appointment is, which to be honest with you is probably a majority of people. Probably a majority of people in this world, that is perfect for them. That’s exactly what they need. If you watch this channel, that might not be what you need. I cover a lot of like deep tech use cases. I cover building things. I cover loading local models and using Linux distros and doing things like that. This is not really for that crowd. This is for the general, hey, I need someone to get me a ticket to a movie. Hey, I need someone to get me a reservation at the Greek restaurant down the street. This is for you. For me personally, I’m not one of these users. I don’t use Instagram. I don’t make restaurant reservations. Call me crazy. I’m fine spending the 10 seconds it takes to type in the name of my favorite restaurant, then click reserve. Like, that’s I that’s always like the kind of the first use case people show. AI agents, I don’t care. I like booking my restaurants. Call me crazy. Uh cost. I’m already paying for every service on planet Earth, so it is what it is. The proactivity is nice. I do like the proactivity and the speed. I actually think that is a big strength and I really like that. But I don’t need an assistant. I don’t need a personal assistant. I need an AI agent when the moment a new open- source model drops, it goes looks at my computer, the hardware, downloads the perfect version, it loads it up, tests it, builds a harness for me, and then texts me and says, “Hey, the model’s good to go. You can start talking to it.” That’s what I need. Metamuse isn’t that. If you are a more casual AI agent user, I think this is great for you. I just think for, you know, if you’re someone who enjoys the videos I make, a lot of the videos I make that are around building amazing things with AI agents, starting businesses, doing really intense things, local models, building your own harnesses. Metamuse doesn’t really address many of those use cases really at all. So, I personally will not be switching. So, what will I be using? How does this compare to the other agents? This is my current stack, right? For deep technical work, I’m doing Chad GBT work. Fact of the matter is Chad GBT6 Astra is the best AI model on planet Earth and it isn’t remotely close. So if I’m doing anything with any sort of complexity, I want the best intelligence in the world. Chad GBT work with six Astra provides that to me. Grockbot for general knowledge work. I have basically an AI agent bot built out for every responsibility in my life. And so they each have very specific context on the very specific parts of my life. And so for my general knowledge work that needs good context on what I do, my business, things I’m interested in, I use Grockbot for that. So and for network administrator personal work, I use Hermes. This is a big workflow for me as well. I’m constantly using different AI models, running experiments, doing things like that. Hermes, which is an open-source harness that basically does whatever you need locally on your computer, I think is the best way to do that at the moment. Metamuse does not fall into this for me. I think is a very cool tool. I’m interested to see what they build out. But like ecosystem matters. I think that’s the most important factor here because anything MetaMuse does that’s like stronger than everyone else on the software side, they can just it could just be stolen, right? Like Grockbot can add a lot of that proactive stuff basically overnight. Chad GBT work can add like the little customization features basically overnight. Really the only moes that these agents and companies have at the moment is the ecosystem. That’s the moat. None of these companies will be able to copy the Instagram moat. It’s impossible. Metamuse won’t be able to copy the X moat, right? Or other moes that they’re potentially getting soon. So the platform, the ecosystem is the moat here. And for me, the ecosystem around MetaMuse just doesn’t it just doesn’t do it for me. I don’t I don’t need any sort I don’t need to see more reals in my life to be quite honest with you. I imagine if you’re a power viewer of this channel, which I recommend you should be, hit subscribe, turn on notifications, leave a like. You’re only getting the best information in AI on planet Earth by subscribing to this. You are probably something similar to me where you’re doing a lot of building, you’re doing a lot of deep knowledge work. you’re probably using these other tools in my stack a little bit more. So, I showed you the strengths, I showed you the weaknesses, I showed you who this is for, I showed you which tools I’m currently using. Let me know down below which of these tools are you using, which are your daily drivers. Talk about your stack down below in the chat. I want to see what you guys are using. I hope this was helpful. Leave a like if it was. I am so grateful you’d watch my videos and learn from me. 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