How far is the "Chinese version of Muse" under the new entrance and old city walls?

Text | Li Jiefeng Editor | Zhang Yuxin 10.4 million times, which is the cumulative number of downloads of Meta's AI personal assistant Muse in less than two months since it was launched. As a result, a wave of personal agent product boom has quickly started in China - who can make a "Chinese version of Muse" has become a topic of concern to the entire industry. A number of entrepreneurial teams are accelerating their entry. Qi Junyuan, the original Doubao PC product manager who left Byte last year, started his own business again this year and launched Today AI, which focuses on continuous memory and active services. Manus, which is popular for performing general tasks, recently launched Cue, a personal assistant that equips Agents with tools such as email and computers. Rabbit, which started with AI hardware r1, has now extended its focus to the new generation OS3: users can use this assistant through the web page or r1, and the team is still developing a new generation of AI hardware to match it... These teams are trying different product paths: one is to provide independent Personal Agent software on mobile phones or computers, and the other is to deeply integrate with hardware and use hardware as the entrance. In software testing, some products emphasize continuous understanding of users and proactive assistance, some equip AI with independent computers and accounts to let it perform tasks, and others try to connect to users’ existing computers and receive instructions through multiple entrances such as software and hardware. These approaches are not mutually exclusive, but each chooses a different starting point. But in China, the first thing Personal Agents of startup companies have to face are free products from big manufacturers. Doubao and Qianwen have already gathered a large number of users, and ByteDance and Alibaba are continuing to add service capabilities to them. Big manufacturers can deliver new features to existing users. What independent Personal Agent urgently needs to answer is: How many users can continue to use the convenience it provides, and are even willing to give up free products from big manufacturers and pay for themselves? On the other hand, winning over users does not mean being able to accomplish things for users. Domestic shopping, travel, payment and other services are concentrated on various platforms, Personal Agen