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

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  • Text-based AI assistants are a hot market, with Instinct, Wajo, Town, Ollie, and Meta’s Muse agent vying for users’ attention and tasks.
  • Instinct’s founder Noah Shinn announced on X that the buzzy startup’s new calling feature, Instinct Concierge, can do things like book restaurants that don’t take online reservations, get on your dentist’s cancellation list, or sort out problems with your cable bill.
  • (This serves as a feature request mechanism, and Meta said that whenever Muse launches new features, they’ll be available first to people who ask Muse about them.).

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Text-based AI assistants are a hot market, with Instinct, Wajo, Town, Ollie, and Meta’s Muse agent vying for users’ attention and tasks.

Instinct’s popularity may now grow even further, as it’s added a new calling feature that lets your agent place calls and act as a concierge. Meta’s Muse, another serious contender in this battle, has also done the same.

Instinct’s founder Noah Shinn announced on X that the buzzy startup’s new calling feature, Instinct Concierge, can do things like book restaurants that don’t take online reservations, get on your dentist’s cancellation list, or sort out problems with your cable bill. The feature is rolling out in early access to some users, with plans to expand to all users in time, he said.

Though Instinct is shipping fast, Meta’s Muse AI assistant is keeping up. The tech giant said the feature will first roll out to users who ask Muse to make a call. (This serves as a feature request mechanism, and Meta said that whenever Muse launches new features, they’ll be available first to people who ask Muse about them.).

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