Meta Muse Hits #1 on App Store & OpenAI Agent Hacks Australia Medicare

So a couple of things to note.

One thing about this sort of hitting the number one, which I found interesting, it actually didn't have as many downloads as ChatGPT had.

But at the time that ChatGPT was being launched, that many downloads put it at number three.

Muse had a little bit fewer downloads than ChatGPT, but it was good enough this particular week to hit number one.

So I don't know if it's actually fair to say that it beats chat GPT, but those are the numbers and you can decide how you feel about that.

But a couple of interesting developments after that.

So Muse, of course, is a personal assistant.

It can basically do anything you want.

I know you've used it and played around with it.

I'm more skeptical and not dying to share my data with it.

So I have not downloaded it.

But Amazon immediately shut the door on it.

So Amazon blocked the agents from actually shopping on Amazon, which was really interesting because obviously if your personal assistant can shop everywhere except for the one place that most of us do a lot of our shopping, that's sort of a hindrance.

So, of course, Muse was sort of scrambling to figure out how to get away with it and get around it, I would say, and make sure it can shop basically anywhere else so that this Amazon thing doesn't become...

A problem, but Amazon, of course, famously, we talked about this on the pod, I don't know, six months, a year ago.

It had, you know, had an actual lawsuit against Perplexity about Perplexity's agents

shopping.

Won its lawsuit, and then it actually just put those in the terms and conditions for Amazon, so it doesn't even need to take you to court.

It can just say, you have violated our terms and conditions, so we're shutting you off.

So that was that.

No Amazon for Mews.

This can be a big fight, I think, over where the consumer lives.

And, you know, one of the things that it made me think of when Amazon shut the door, first of all, I think they're doing deals with Shopify and Stripe Pay.

So you'll be able to shop and buy things a lot of places on the internet through Muse, just not Amazon.

And then I kind of went, doesn't Amazon have an AI assistant? Like that used to be a thing.