Meta Muse vs ChatGPT Dots — I compared the new AI agents, and they’re not as similar as they look
By Amanda Caswell, Tom's Guide
Picture: Tom's Guide
If you blinked this month, you might think Meta and OpenAI launched essentially the same AI agent three weeks apart. On September 8, Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that gets its own dedicated cloud computer and keeps working on your tasks after you close the app. Twenty-one days later, OpenAI took the stage at DevDay 2026 in San Francisco and unveiled Dots — always-on AI agents inside ChatGPT, each running on its own cloud computer and browser. And while they sound remarkably similar, with reports across the internet comparing them because of a few similarities like the fact that both get their own cloud computer, work after you leave, and can connect to outside services, that's about where the comparisons stop. Muse and Dots are not interchangeable.
This report was first published by Tom's Guide. What you see here is a brief excerpt. The full text is theirs.
Continue reading at Tom's Guide
