Since May, Google, Microsoft, xAI, Meta, Apple, OpenAI and Anthropic have all launched a personal agent: an AI personal assistant you hand your email, your calendar and sometimes your bank to, and it gets on with jobs while you're not looking. Its exploding so quickly that Meta's Muse got to 5 million US downloads in 22 days, faster than ChatGPT did. In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through who's launched what, what makes these agents different from the ChatGPT or Claude you already use, how to test one on your own life before you trust it with your bank.⏭️ Episode highlights(01:33) – Every big lab ships one in five months(02:36) – Why Meta's Muse is pulling ahead(04:37) – Why your agent gets its own computer(06:14) – How agents remember you(07:21) – Picking an agent like a bank(08:11) – Which agents work in the UK(14:08) – The case for waiting
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