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Meta launched its new AI app Muse on Tuesday, and it’s quickly catching Wall Street’s attention, with its agentic AI push also becoming a hot topic on X. According to fresh data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, Muse has racked up over 83,000 downloads on US iOS, and the app is currently US-only. That download volume has already pushed Muse to No. 2 on the App Store charts — though it’s a noticeably weaker showing than Meta’s previous app launches: Threads pulled in over 4.3 million US downloads on day one, and the Meta AI app had 108,000 day-one downloads. The gap is even starker compared to ChatGPT, which crossed 500,000 US installs (its only market at the time) in less than a week — averaging roughly 83,000 downloads a day. Muse took twice as long to hit that same number. That said, it doesn’t necessarily mean Muse is underperforming; it might just be growing at a slower pace, and its iOS ranking has already climbed from No. 4 on Wednesday to No. 2 now. The Android version is doing much worse, sitting at No. 338 in Google Play’s productivity category, and Android download numbers haven’t been released yet. Muse is also available via the web and WhatsApp, but downloads through those channels aren’t included in the stats above. The piece notes that Meta is betting on agentic AI — AI agents that can complete tasks on a user’s behalf — as the future of consumer AI. Right now, the main competitor in the simple consumer-agent space is Instinct, a text-message-based AI agent valued at $2.5 billion. Despite concerns about safety and an overly permissive privacy policy, Silicon Valley insiders still praise its capabilities.

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Meta’s Muse crossed 83,000 US iOS downloads and hit No. 2 on the App Store — slower than ChatGPT’s first-week run past 500,000, but its climb from No. 4 to No. 2 shows agentic AI apps are starting to find real footing.

What’s worth an AI builder’s attention here isn’t the download number itself — it’s the angle Meta chose: an agent that completes tasks on your behalf, not another chat interface. The piece also flags that the main rival in this space right now is Instinct, a text-based AI agent valued at $2.5 billion, and industry insiders are still willing to buy into its capabilities despite known safety concerns and an overly loose privacy policy. That’s a telling reality check — when consumers and the industry evaluate agentic products, experience and capability tend to get scrutinized first, while safety mechanisms get pushed to the background. That’s exactly the corner that’s easiest to cut when designing agent-based apps.

If you’re building an agent product, take this as a reminder: it’s worth thinking through the priority between capability and safety early on — rather than letting your users or the market decide it for you.

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