AI News: Big ChatGPT & Grok Bot Updates, Meta Muse Is Here

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TLDR

Meta launched Muse, a consumer AI agent that packages browser automation, recurring heartbeat tasks, goals, and Instagram/Facebook connectors into one interface aimed at non-technical users. The presenter tested it and found it competent but not game-changing, saying he will stick with his existing Grokbot workflow; he sees Meta, OpenAI, and xAI all converging on similar consumer agent products.

Key points

Meta's Muse agent includes a virtual browser, feed, goals, and recurring heartbeat tasks.

ChatGPT added a writing style toggle that learns from connected Slack, email, and documents.

Grokbot added in-chat login, editable email drafts, and one-click account switching.

The presenter says Muse is not game-changing and prefers Grokbot.

The presenter demonstrated Blot scheduling Grokbot-made Instagram carousels and automating comment-triggered DMs.

Techniques

  • computer use for browser automation
  • MCP integrations for third-party apps
  • writing style extraction from connected apps
  • recurring scheduled tasks (heartbeats)
  • comment-triggered DM automation
Transcript (captions)

0:00 Another week, another ton of updates in the AI space. Chachebt just solved one of its biggest problems. Meta just released their new AI agent called Muse, which is a competitor to Grockbot, and

0:10 it's actually pretty interesting. Grockbot got three new updates that make it even better than before, and plenty more. This is a new series that I'm doing on YouTube where I break down the

0:19 top AI news and updates every single Friday. I know just how overwhelming it could stay up to date in this space, so my goal is to make your life easier when it comes to staying ahead of the curve.

0:28 So without further ado, let's dive right in. First of all, let's talk about Meta Muse. I'm going to break down exactly what it is right now. Then I'm going to show it live in action and show you

0:36 exactly how you can begin using this along with what it's capable of and some of the limitations. Muse is a new consumer AI agent that was released from Meta on September 8th that can do an

0:45 array of different tasks for you. This is basically just Meta's version of Grockbot with a couple of different caveats. Now, let's break down a couple of the key features inside of Metamuse

0:54 so you can understand exactly what it's capable of. So, first we get a secure computer with its own browser, very, very similar to Grockbot. So, not only can it perform tasks across the

1:03 different applications that we connect, but it could also use a virtual browser to do things like go and book flights for us and basically do anything that these browser use agents can perform.

1:12 Now, if I pull up my Muse agent, this is exactly what we're going to see inside of the interface. So, we have one conversation with our agent, which mine is just simply called Muse right here.

1:22 And I want to quickly highlight one thing that is different from this and Grockbot. Now on the right hand side is Grockbot. On the lefth hand side we have Muse. And the key difference here is

1:31 that inside of Grockbot we have multiple different AI agents. So I think I have about 10 or 12 different AI agents that I use and they're able to communicate with each other. Whereas Muse is one

1:41 singular AI agent that you can create that's going to handle all of your different tasks. With that being said, we do have something called a side chat, which is basically where we could see

1:49 all of the different conversations that we are having with this agent. So that way, all of our tasks and conversations aren't going to be bleeding with each other. Next up, if I come over to the

1:58 left-h hand side, we have a couple of different things. So, let's go through these right now. Right here is the feed. So, if I click on this, you can basically see a feed of everything that

2:06 is going on inside of your agent, everything that's going on inside of your connected applications. I think this is a cool addition to the product and I do wish that this was inside of

2:14 Grockbot because I think it's just like a very simple TLDDR of everything that's going on that you could always view. Think of this like your morning brief, but it's always accessible right here on

2:24 the left-hand side of your screen. So, what I'm going to do, I'm just going to come here and change the instructions and say, I want you to create a feed that helps me stay up to date on

2:30 everything that's going on inside of my business. I also want you to show me everything that's going on inside of the AI space so I could stay up to date with all of the new product releases and news

2:41 that drops in this space. So now every morning it's going to follow these instructions in order to tailor this specific feed for me with all this information that is relevant to me

2:50 personally and my business. And just like that, we have this feed. So Friday afternoon, OpenI just launched chatbt for financial services and it gave me a quick TLDDR on this news article. Now,

2:59 if I go down to ideas right here with this light bulb, this is basically just a prompt library. So, you could see exactly what Metamuse can do for you if you're struggling to figure out

3:09 different tasks you could have it run. So, for example, this one at the top says, "If you're moving, I'll get quotes, book the movers, and follow your address change." So, I'm going to click

3:16 on this. Basically, what it's going to do is it's going to create an artifact as well as a recurring task right here. So, I'm just going to click let's do it. And now, it's going to send this prompt

3:24 over to my Muse Agent. And as you can see on the top, it shows that it is working. Now, if I move down to the next one on the lefth hand sidebar, we have this checklist. And this is where our

3:34 goals live. And personally, after playing around with this a little bit, this is one of the coolest features I have found inside of Muse that I wish we would have inside of Grockbot. So, we

3:42 can simply just create a goal for any of these different categories. So, for example, let's say we want to hit a health goal in order to lose x amount of weight. I could click on this, click

3:51 let's do it. And now Muse is going to walk us through this new conversation breaking down a specific goal we have. So I'm going to go ahead and go through this right now. All right. So what I

3:59 want to do is I want to up my protein goals to 200 g of protein every single day. I also want to log my workouts 5 days of the week and I want to run 3 days throughout the week as well on top

4:10 of the 5 days of weightlifting. So what I did is I asked Muse if it could create an artifact to show all of my daily intake every single day. This way I could just have a quick TLDDR on whether

4:20 or not I'm hitting my protein goals, what it is I'm eating throughout the day, etc. So, what Muse did is it generated this daily intake artifact that lives on the lefth hand sidebar of

4:30 my screen. Obviously, it shows today. I'm able to come in here and log my specific protein. Um, then it shows over the last 7 days if I've hit my protein goal. And I could obviously scroll and

4:40 see each of these individual days and how much protein that I ate. Also, I could come to the chat and basically just tell Muse, hey, I ate this for breakfast. Here's the amount of protein.

4:49 And then it's going to go and update that specific artifact that I created. Now, obviously on the left hand side, you can see that we now have this start a health goal chat. This is the one that

4:58 I was just using. So, at any given time, we could go and create a new chat here in order to stay organized with all the conversations we're having with our agent. One other thing that I want to

5:07 show inside of Muse is we have this menu over here on the right hand side inside of our agent. So, we have a today task tracker which shows every single thing that our agent's done throughout the

5:17 day. I think this is a pretty cool addition because then we could have a breakdown on everything that our agent is doing for us. So, for example, I could click on this. It shows build

5:26 protein intake tracker and it shows a summary of every single thing that it's done. And then it even shows what our sub agent has accomplished as well. Next, if I click on this approvals tab,

5:35 whenever there is something that our agent needs approval from, it's going to populate right here. So let's say we wanted to go and sign into Instagram or something. It might have to ask us for

5:44 approval and that will live right here. We could simply just click the check mark in order to approve it. Or we could restrict it so it's not able to go and perform a specific task for us. Then we

5:53 have this upcoming section right here which is basically where we could see all of our scheduled tasks or recurring tasks we set for our agent. Inside of Muse, they actually call this a

6:02 heartbeat instead of a routine or a scheduled task. So we could set a heartbeat for any of the tasks that we run. And so, for example, if we want something to run every 30 minutes, we

6:11 could go and change the cadence of this. And then we could basically create all these recurring tasks that we could see right here inside of our agent. Now, if I click this fingerprint button, it's

6:20 going to take us right here. And this is basically where we're going to customize our Muse agent. So, we have two things right here. We have the soul and we have the memory. If you've ever used claude

6:28 code or claude co-work or codeex, this is basically like the claw.md or the agent.mmd. This is basically where we just specify exactly how we want to interact with this things we want it to

6:38 invoid. So that way we could customize exactly how this is going to interact with us. And then same thing for the memory right here. If I click on this, this is basically just a memory file.

6:47 And if we ever need Muse to remember something, it's going to store all those memories in these markdown files that live inside of this little fingerprint button inside of your Muse agent. Now,

6:56 one thing I think is pretty unique to MetaMuse is if I come over and find the connectors here, I come down to settings and I go down to connectors. You can see there are multiple different connectors

7:06 here. These are all the basic ones like Gmail, Calendarly, Google Drive, etc. But here's where it gets interesting. We could actually connect Instagram and Instagram messages as well as Facebook

7:16 Messenger. So, let's say we run a social media account or we run a marketing agency. we could probably pull statistics from our Instagram account and maybe automate some of the tasks

7:24 that are going on inside of our social accounts. So, I'm going to play around with this over the coming days and I'll keep you guys updated with it and let you know my thoughts. Now, I will say

7:32 after playing around with this a little bit, I don't think this is anything that is gamechanging. I personally have been loving Grockbot and I'm going to talk about it later on in this video with

7:40 some of the new features they're adding. So, I personally will not be transitioning from my pre-existing Grockbot workflow to this. But, this does bring up an interesting point. All

7:49 of these different AI model providers are starting to build out consumer AI agent products. So, I honestly think that both Claude and OpenAI are probably working on something behind the scene

7:58 where we can just text our AI agents from our phone or our computer in order to accomplish all these different tasks for us because right now we're kind of limited to the codeex or the claude code

8:09 interface. And this can be overwhelming if we're a non-technical person with all these different claim simplified over time. time and we're starting to see that with all these

8:20 different AI companies release products exactly like this. Next up, we have a brand new release from ChatBT that can now learn your writing style. So, let me break down exactly how this works, how

8:29 it's different from before, and how to begin using this right now in just a couple of simple steps. First of all, what is new with this chatbt learns your writing style from the different

8:39 connected apps that you have. So, it's able to pull from your messages on Slack. It's able to pull from documents that you have connected. It could even pull directly from your email address

8:48 that you have connected inside of your chatbt. This is very easy to enable. So, let me show you exactly how to do this right now. First of all, you're going to come to chatubt.com as you can see on my

8:58 screen here. Then, I'm going to come down to the bottom left where it shows my profile. Then, we're simply going to click on personalization. This is where we're able to enable this new chatbt

9:07 writing skill. So, all we need to do is scroll down to the very bottom of this menu right here. And then we're going to see this new section called writing. All I have to do is toggle this on where it

9:16 says reference my writing style. And it's going to pull up this little card inside of chatbt that looks exactly like this. So you can see all the different apps that we have connected. For

9:25 messaging, it's connected to Slack in order to see how I communicate with my clients or my team members. I could set up any documents that I would like to add. So let's say I have specific

9:34 documents inside of Notion or Google Drive or SharePoint. I could simply link these right here in order for it to reference these. And then I already have my email connected, but if you want to

9:43 connect it, all you have to do is click on this. You could either connect your Outlook email or your Gmail account. It's very simple to do. And then all I have to do is click use writing style.

9:51 Now going to send chatbt this specific prompt right here. And it's going to go through and pull from my previous email threads in order to see exactly how I communicate with either my clients or my

10:02 team members. And then it's able to use this as reference whenever we generate a message over email or Slack. This obviously isn't like a crazy addition to chatbt, but I think this is pretty

10:11 helpful if you have chatbt replying to your emails and you can't get it to sound exactly how you want it to. This is just a very easy done for you way in order to craft your writing style. And

10:20 here we go. After 30 seconds, it pulled from my email in order to analyze my style. And then it drafted this reply to an email that I just got. So, I could either edit this directly inside of

10:29 here, which is really cool. So, I could just ask for changes directly for the text that I select, or I could go ahead and just click send, and it's going to send directly from chatbt without me

10:39 needing to go into my Gmail and approve the draft. Now, since we're on the topic of connecting different applications to chatbt in order to get this writing style for us to reference, let's say

10:48 that there's an app we want to connect to that we don't see directly inside of chatbt or claude or any AI agent that we use. Well, I'm going to show you a simple solution right now. I personally

10:58 use an MCP server called Zapier MCP which connects to 9,000 plus different applications and it is very simple to set up. All you have to do is come here and click add MCP server. I'm just going

11:08 to select chatbt since this is exactly what I'm using and then I'm going to follow these instructions. So I'm just going to come here and click on turn on developer mode. This allows us to add

11:17 this custom MCP server. Once we toggle this on, we're simply going to come back to Zapier and then click on create your plugin. Before I do that, I'm just going to copy this URL right here and then

11:27 click create your plugin. Next, I'm just going to call this Zapier. Paste in that URL that it gave us into this connection section right here. And then I'm just going to click I understand and want to

11:35 continue. And then click create. Next, I'm just going to copy this prompt right here. Come to a new chat. And I'm just going to paste this in. And Chatbt is going to go and onboard this for me. So,

11:44 I literally don't have to touch anything. All right. So, there we go. We now have this set up. Now, all I need to do is come back to Zapier, and I'm just going to add the different applications

11:52 that we want to add. So, let's say I want to come here and add Drip, which is my email marketing campaign software. So, I'm going to click on this. I'm just going to select all tools. These are

12:00 basically all the actions it can perform inside of Drip for us. I'm going to click on connect. And all I need to do is click on add seven tools and configure my Drip account. Now, for the

12:09 next release of the week, Grockbot added three very useful features to the product. And if you've been watching this channel, Grockbot is my favorite AI tool on the market right now. I still

12:18 think this is massively underrated. It's probably the best AI agent tool for nontechnical users. So, let's go through these three new features right now. First, we can now complete a login

12:28 without ever having to leave the chat. It could use a computer use in order to go and log into the specific websites that you need to use. And if it needs access to that account, it will pull up

12:36 this card right here. And all you have to do is fill in your information. And the cool part is you could even use your pre-saved information on your phone. So, that way you don't have to go and type

12:45 in your username and password. You could simply just click one button and it could now log into that account. They also added the ability to see your email drafts directly inside of Grockbot

12:54 without us having to leave our Grockbot account and going inside of Gmail. And you could see what it looks like right here. So you could basically say, "Draft me an email to Sarah to move Friday's

13:03 design review to 2 p.m. and it will pull up this inside of the user interface." So we could go and actually edit this if we would like or we could simply just click on send email or discard it if we

13:13 don't want to send it. I personally have been using Grockbot every single day to reply to a majority of my emails at this point. So, I think this is a cool feature. So, let's test it out right

13:22 now. I want you to go and draft an email to brock merich@gmail.com and ask if he's free for a meeting on Friday at 6 p.m. All right, so this is what it looks like. Basically, you could

13:32 see the new email right here. It shows who the email's from, who it's going to. We could also CC somebody directly in here. We could change the subject if we would like, and we could even change the

13:40 text here. Um, I think this is super easy to use because before it would draft this email and then if we wanted to make changes, we either had to have Grockbot do it for us or we had to go

13:49 into Gmail into the draft and change the text from there. So instead, we could just use this and let's say I want to send this. I could just click send email and it's going to do that for us

13:58 automatically. Now, this isn't a huge update, but it's these little incremental things that Grock is adding to Grockbot that I'm really starting to love. I really do think that they're

14:06 polishing up this product and it's going to be more and more useful over time, especially because Grock 4.7 is coming out in the next couple of days. And be sure to subscribe so you could see my

14:17 breakdown on that. And the last update for Grockbot this week, and I really, really like this one. We can now switch between multiple different accounts inside of Grockbot in just one click.

14:27 So, let's say we want to have a personal account and we want to have one for business. We could basically connect multiple different emails and toggle between these two different accounts so

14:35 we're not mixing and matching different agents and conversations between two different workspaces. On the topic of Grockbot, I want to show you a pretty cool use case that I've personally been

14:44 using so you can kind of see the power of this. Right here, I have these Instagram carousels that Grockbot and Higsfield generated for me automatically. This was created in about

14:52 2 minutes from a very, very simple prompt that I gave it. And on top of this, I'm going to show you exactly how I've connected this to a platform that will automatically schedule this to be

15:01 posted on my Instagram and my Tik Tok and my LinkedIn. And not only will it post it, but it's going to create the DM automation. So, I don't have to go and configure this myself. You probably see

15:11 all over Instagram posts that say comment X and I'll send you the link. And the way people do this is they use something called Manyhat, but you have to set this up and configure it

15:20 yourself. Well, I'm going to show you how I use something called Blot and plug it directly into Grockbot, Claude, or Chatbt, any AI agent I use in order to automate this entire process for me.

15:30 Now, first of all, if you do want to sign up with an account, there is a link in the description to do so. Let me show you very simply how you can set this up. It's very easy to do. As you can see, we

15:38 have this menu right here with a couple of different things. We have our inbox, we have our automations, we have our calendar for all of the images and videos that we've scheduled to be

15:46 posted. But, I'm going to come down to the bottom where it says settings. First, we need to configure our accounts. So, make sure to add any of these social accounts that you want to

15:54 add. It's as simple as just clicking on this and then it's going to take you to that platform and you just have to sign in and authorize Blot. Just like that, I have my LinkedIn configured so I can

16:04 begin making posts to my LinkedIn page. Next, I'm going to come over to API and this is where we're going to connect this to Grockbot Claude or any other AI agent that we want to use. We're just

16:13 going to scroll down here to where it says other MCP clients. I'm going to click copy MCP config. Then I'm going to come over to Grockbot. I'm going to paste this in. And I'm just going to

16:21 tell Grockbot to add this MCP server. All right. So, now that it's connected, I'm simply just going to come here and say, I want you to go and schedule that carousel post to go live tomorrow at

16:30 8:00 a.m. Pacific time. Could you also set up the DM automation? So, I want them to comment Grock. And I'll send them the link. I'm just going to hit send. And now, Blot is going to work in

16:39 the background to take those Instagram carousels and then configure it to go live on Instagram for me. And it should only take a couple of minutes. All right. So, about 2 minutes later. And if

16:48 I come over to the calendar inside of potato, you can now see that I have this Instagram carousel ready to go tomorrow at 400 p.m. I specified and said I want it at 8:00 a.m. Pacific time. I'm

16:58 currently in Europe, so the time zone is different, but this is correct right here. It also added this description to the post along with here are all of the carousels that Grockbot created for me

17:09 and posted in just a matter of like 3 minutes. And then if I come over to the automation sections of potato, you can now see that we have this automation configured. So on any post or reel, if

17:21 it has a comment Grock, it's automatically going to send this DM message along with this URL to watch the video that I had as the call to action. And there we have it. That is the AI

17:31 news for the week. If you guys want more episodes like this, I'm doing it every single Friday, so that way you could stay up to date in the AI space without getting overwhelmed. Make sure to

17:39 subscribe to see next week's episode. Let me know what you think of this series in the comments below. And I look forward to seeing you in the next one.

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