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Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make callsnew

Instinct and Meta's Muse AI agents both added phone-calling concierge features, reaching feature parity as Instinct reportedly raises at a $10 billion valuation.

Instinct launched Instinct Concierge, an early-access calling feature for tasks like booking restaurants without online reservations and resolving cable bills, announced by founder Noah Shinn. Meta's Muse expanded outbound calling to US businesses, prioritizing users who had requested the feature. Instinct raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation last month and is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation. Muse's app garnered over 730,000 US downloads in its first days, outpacing the Meta AI app's launch.

After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera

Meta is preparing camera-less Luna smart glasses with microphones and an AI button to access its chatbot and Muse agent, per reports.

The Information reports Meta is developing Luna, a camera-free smart glasses model with six built-in microphones and a side button that activates Meta's AI chatbot and its Muse consumer agent, possibly unveiled at next week's Meta Connect event. The move follows consumer backlash over camera-equipped glasses that critics called 'perv glasses.' Meta's Reality Labs continues to post large losses despite the smart glasses line's relative market success.

TechCrunch · AI · 17h agoAI industry

Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac

Snap launches Specs Intelligence, an anticipatory AI assistant on iOS in preview with Mac early access, alongside its Specs AR glasses.

Snap introduced Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant that connects accounts like Gmail and Slack to proactively surface tasks such as meeting prep and travel planning. It is available on iOS in preview today, with a waitlisted Mac early-access experience, launching alongside Snap's first consumer AR glasses, Specs. Snap says it runs a proprietary mix of open-source models hosted in the US alongside local LLMs, and claims connected personal content will not train its models or serve personalized ads. The company must still win user trust given the assistant's broad access to personal data.

The Verge · AIupdated · 12h agofirst · 14h agoAI industry 2 sources