Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta is opening to win implicit Wall Street pursuing Tuesday’s motorboat of its caller AI app, Muse. The tech giant’s propulsion into agentic AI is besides a blistery taxable connected X among manufacture players. Now, aboriginal numbers connection amended penetration into however fashionable Muse really is among its people marketplace of U.S. consumers.

According to caller information provided by the marketplace quality steadfast Sensor Tower, Muse has been downloaded northbound of 83,000 times connected iOS successful the United States. (The app is presently constricted to the U.S. for now.)

While this pushed Muse into the No. 2 presumption connected the App Store’s Top Charts, its motorboat pales erstwhile compared with different caller app debuts from Meta, similar Threads and Meta AI, the information indicates. For instance, Threads was downloaded much than 4.3 cardinal times successful the U.S. connected its motorboat day, and the Meta AI app saw 108,000 U.S. downloads during its debut.

Muse is besides further down erstwhile compared with different notable user AI app’s launch: ChatGPT. In little than a week aft its arrival, ChatGPT had topped fractional a cardinal installs successful the U.S., which was besides its lone marketplace astatine the time. If that dispersed was divided evenly, that would mean ChatGPT was seeing an mean of 83.3K downloads regular astatine its debut — a fig that it took Muse doubly the clip to achieve.

None of this needfully means that the Muse motorboat is going poorly — it whitethorn conscionable beryllium taking disconnected astatine a somewhat slower pace. The app is inactive climbing the charts connected iOS, having moved up from the 4th presumption connected the U.S. App Store connected Wednesday to present No. 2 arsenic of today.

Its Android counterpart, however, is faring little well. Muse has lone achieved a fertile of No. 338 successful the Productivity class connected Google Play’s app marketplace. (Its Android download numbers aren’t yet available.)

Muse is besides disposable via the web and done WhatsApp, neither of which are being counted successful these estimates.

Still, Muse’s numbers, portion early, are worthy watching arsenic the app represents 1 of Meta’s bigger bets to date. In short, the institution believes that agents that enactment to get things done connected people’s behalf volition beryllium the aboriginal of user AI — and it’s staking its assertion connected this emerging market. (It’s astatine slightest arsenic important a determination arsenic erstwhile the institution rebranded from Facebook to pursuit its metaverse ambitions arsenic Meta!)

Meta, of course, is not unsocial successful its pursuit of consumer-facing agentic AI. Every institution has a equine successful this race, it seems, from Google’s Gemini Spark to Anthropic’s Claude Cowork and beyond. But for simple-to-use agents aimed astatine the mundane person, the contention for present is betwixt Meta’s Muse and Instinct, a caller AI cause that works implicit substance messages and was precocious valued astatine $2.5 billion.

Despite security concerns and an overly wide and permissive privateness policy, Silicon Valley insiders person been raving astir Instinct’s capabilities.

While determination are plentifulness of different agents that absorption much narrowly connected things similar managing work oregon family life, Instinct seems to beryllium the 1 to beat, fixed the $350 million it present has astatine its disposal and the velocity with which it’s shipping caller features. This week, for example, Instinct has rolled retired email addresses for each its users, and conscionable announced it’s gathering its ain societal web of sorts — that is, one person’s Instinct cause tin present speech to those belonging to their friends to coordinate plans.

If agents are the future, past Instinct’s quality to physique a caller societal graph based connected who radical really speech to and bent retired with successful existent beingness could beryllium yet much invaluable than Meta’s person graph, which is simply a premix of radical users really cognize and those they conscionable follow.

Over the past respective days, Instinct besides launched integrations with Stripe and 1Password, and a location-sharing feature truthful the cause tin instrumentality connected actions that necessitate knowing your existent location.

Muse’s motorboat timing could beryllium different origin impacting its debut numbers. The agent, which requires users to supply Meta with much of their idiosyncratic information, arrived lone days aft Meta agreed to a massive $18 cardinal multistate settlement in a suit implicit societal media’s user harms. The company’s estimation has besides taken galore different ineligible hits implicit the years, arsenic it’s been progressive successful monolithic information scandals and has been targeted and fined aggregate times by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission implicit privateness violations.