Ben Thompson calls Meta's Muse a bearish signal for the frontier labs, because a not-state-of-the-art model now makes a product stickier than any chatbot "The key for the frontier labs, then, is to build those user touchpoints while they have superior capabilities." "However, this is where Meta's recent launch of Muse is a bearish signal. Muse is, by a significant margin, the best and most approachable personal agent product I have tried." "Meta deserves a tremendous amount of credit for the product work they have put in, as well as the massive infrastructure commitment entailed in providing users with a very capable virtual machine for free." "Oh, and of course they deserve credit for the Muse Spark model undergirding Muse." "That noted, Muse Spark 1.3, the most advanced Meta model, is still not state-of-the-art, and that is the bearish signal: it is good enough for a very good personal agent product, and critically, a personal agent is much stickier than a chatbot." "Once you have put all of your information into a personal agent and actually incorporated it into your day-to-day life, it is much more of a challenge to change to something else."

great, they finally came for my side project

Today, I learned about @ecosia search engine.. only because one of my leads arrived through it.