OpenAI has a Muse problem
Decoder with Nilay Patel

OpenAI has a Muse problem

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202645 min
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My guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we're discussing the new wave of consumer friendly AI agents. AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a minute now, but the launch of Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, and XAI’s Grok Bot has brought easy to use agents to millions. Muse, notably, is free, while Dots is not, and you’ll hear Hayden and me get into why Meta, which still doesn't have a frontier model of its own, might have a meaningful edge here because it's much better at making and distrib...

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Support for the show comes from Atio. There are sales teams out there who never seem to stop moving. Always a step ahead, always working with a level

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of precision that doesn't seem normal. It's no secret, they're on Atio, the agentic CRM. Atio runs the work behind every win. It's built for humans and agents,

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with the guardrails of human software and the scale of agentic infrastructure. This is the frontier of go-to-market. Teams like Parallel, TurboPuffer, and Wardsmith

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