Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
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a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school
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Morphotonics raises €40M to expand its display tech into data centers
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Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
Kairos Power gets up to $100M from Samsung group to build nuclear reactor for Google
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Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they’re under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why would they?