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- Meta Muse sparks personal-agent race as China's tech giants play catch-up
A Bohu Finance article republished by TMTPost says Meta launched its personal agent Muse in early September; it reached over 5 million cumulative downloads in 22 days, and Meta shares rose 11.43% on Sept. 21, adding more than $190 billion in market value in a day. Within three weeks, OpenAI introduced the always-on agent Dots at DevDay, Alibaba launched the personal agent Qwen Go, and ByteDance and Tencent were reported to be developing personal assistants across multiple product lines — a pattern the article frames as "can't lead, at least don't fall behind." The piece also lists obstacles: retail and SaaS platforms such as Amazon detect and block Muse's automated traffic; Doubao Phone Assistant opened third-party screen-operation permissions after the SAEP public comment period, but its latest refusal list covers 151 apps including WeChat, Taobao, Alipay and Meituan; and Morgan Stanley estimates that even at 25% weekly token use, running an always-on agent like Muse costs about $37 a month, or $445 a year, per user — far above Meta's roughly $70 average annual revenue per user worldwide.
钛媒体 · 🔥 7 - Meta Muse's rise: can personal AI agents scale beyond walled gardens?
An analysis republished by 36Kr (originally from Haike Caijing) says Meta's Muse personal AI agent, launched Sept. 8, topped the U.S. iOS free app chart for multiple days, with Sensor Tower reporting more than 730,000 downloads in five days and over 5 million cumulative by Sept. 30; Meta followed with the long-horizon Muse Wonder model on Oct. 12, a day before Google's Gemini 4 Argon. The piece says Muse chains together booking, price comparison and email tasks through users' email and Google accounts, but Amazon has asked Meta to remove it from the service, while Shopify opened checkout to AI agents via a universal commerce protocol; in China, agents face app-island barriers, and Doubao's phone assistant listed 151 apps—including Taobao, Alipay and WeChat—that refuse agent operation. It also cites Muse pricing (roughly 100 million free tokens a week, plus $20 and $100 monthly tiers), a reported Mac client zero-day, a six-bank risk warning, and a Toronto blogger who said Muse accepted a low offer and shared his home address.
36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 13 - Doubao Phone Assistant SAEP notice ends with 155 apps refusing AI control
On 14 October the 30-day notice period for the Doubao Phone Assistant's Screen Automation Operation Declaration Protocol (SAEP) ended with 155 apps opting out of AI automation — 66 from Tencent, 23 from Alibaba, 14 from Kuaishou and 11 from Meituan, including WeChat, QQ, Taobao, Alipay, Tmall, Meituan and Honor of Kings, as well as AI apps like DeepSeek, Kimi and Kling. Users can still install those apps, but cannot have the assistant send WeChat messages, shop on Taobao or order food for them. A first prototype, the M153 (3,499 yuan, December 2025), was blocked for screen reading and simulated taps; the second-generation NaviX Ultra prefers MCP and A2A protocols with taps as a fallback and gives apps 30 days to refuse. Analysts say platforms are protecting entry points, user time, recommendation power and data ownership; rival StepFun's STEPX Neo Preview, which only calls APIs apps open voluntarily, has nearly 100 partners including Alipay, Meituan and Didi.
钛媒体 · 🔥 7 - ByteDance, Tencent, Alibaba race to build China's answer to Meta's Muse
Ant Group and Alibaba have begun small-scale testing of "Lingguang 2.0" and launched "Qwen Go!" respectively, ByteDance was reported to be testing a personal assistant called "Xiaodou" through its Doubao Phone Assistant team, Tencent is running a multi-track effort with LightVela, Yuanbao and a WeChat-native agent, and Manus — fresh off a 3.3 billion yuan funding round — launched its personal product Cue. The wave traces back to Meta's Muse, released Sept. 8: Sensor Tower figures cited in the report show 2.5 million downloads in 13 days and more than 5 million by day 22, though TickerTrends data cited shows daily net new users falling from a September peak of 198,000 to 74,000, with daily actives never topping 3 million in its first month. The report also says Amazon blocked Muse from placing orders on its platform, that 155 Chinese apps have refused such automation, and cites Morgan Stanley as judging that stable monetization for Muse is unlikely before late 2027–2028.
36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 10 - 155 apps reject Doubao Phone Assistant's SAEP protocol, leaving its agent vision stalled
TMTPost's Guangzhui Intelligence reports that Doubao Phone Assistant published the results of its Screen Automation Execution Protocol (SAEP) disclosure period on Oct 14, listing 155 apps that formally refused to let its AI act on their behalf — including WeChat, QQ, Taobao, Alipay, Meituan, Kuaishou, DeepSeek, Kimi, Pinduoduo, Xiaohongshu, WPS and several bank and carrier apps, with 66 Tencent-linked and 23 Alibaba-linked entries. ByteDance framed SAEP — with its three layers of app-declared boundaries, centralized policy decisions and system-level enforcement — as a way to set rules for GUI agents, but the report attributes the refusals to lost traffic gatekeeping and privacy worries, noting WeChat and Alipay had already triggered risk controls against the first Doubao phone. The piece contrasts this with StepFun's STEPX Neo, launched Oct 13, which takes an MCP+A2A approach and whose Amoo agent has partnerships with nearly 100 companies including Alipay, Tencent, Ctrip and Meituan, and with Meta's Muse, which Amazon cut off from shopping 13 days after launch.
钛媒体 · 🔥 3 - StepFun launches STEPX Neo, an 'agent-native' phone with Step AOS 1.0
On the evening of Oct 13, StepFun unveiled STEPX Neo, its first large-model-native agent phone, running what it calls the world's first agent-native operating system, Step AOS 1.0, plus the Amoo agent; the handset is ODM-manufactured with a Snapdragon 8-series chip, a transparent two-tone body and a dot-matrix rear display, and no price or ship date was given. StepFun says Step AOS is compatible with Android, Linux and RTOS and adds an agent runtime layer above the traditional system to schedule device and cloud compute, share data across apps and use a 'dual-domain, three-step' memory structure — simple tasks run locally, complex ones in the cloud, with undo and rollback — though the company admits completion is about 70%. Chairman Yin Qi said current on-device chips cannot support heavy agent demand and noted Step 5 Preview has 27B active parameters, so Amoo will still send many tasks to the cloud; meanwhile Doubao Phone Assistant's published refusal list shows 151 apps, including WeChat, Taobao, Meituan and Alipay, rejecting GUI automation.
钛媒体 · 🔥 3 - Nubia NaviX Ultra opens 300-slot 'Beta Lab' for in-development AI features
Nubia announced a "Beta Lab" program for its NaviX Ultra phone during the device's first evolution livestream, offering a limited 300 beta slots so users can try experimental internal features earlier, including in-development AI capabilities, and help turn ideas into official product features. The NaviX Ultra launched on September 16, built end-to-end under ZTE's Nubia with the Doubao Phone Assistant leading the AI assistant experience, and runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform. It comes in four colors (Dream, Blue Realm, black and white), with a subsidized starting price of 5,499 yuan; the 12GB+512GB model costs 5,999 yuan, 16GB+512GB 6,499 yuan and 16GB+1TB 7,499 yuan.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 3 - Doubao Phone Assistant opens screen automation; 155 apps opt out
Doubao Phone Assistant said the 30-day public notice period for its Screen Automation Execution Protocol (SAEP) has ended, so it will gradually open screen-automation access to third-party apps: those that pass risk assessment and have not explicitly objected can be controlled via simulated GUI taps and screen recognition. The refusal list published the same day grew from an initial 151 to 155 apps, including 66 from Tencent (WeChat, QQ, Honor of Kings, Tencent Yuanbao), 23 from Alibaba (Taobao, Alipay, Amap, DingTalk, Qwen), plus 14 from Kuaishou, 11 from Meituan, and AI peers DeepSeek and Kimi. Doubao said the refusals cover only agent-driven operations, not manual use of those apps on devices such as the Nubia M153 and NaviX Ultra, and that developers can opt out at any time, with support shut off within three working days.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 11 - Nubia NaviX Ultra opens 'beta lab' program, Oct 14 livestream
Nubia said its NaviX Ultra "beta lab" program will open soon, letting early adopters test the newest capabilities first, with the first evolution livestream scheduled for Oct 14 at 19:00. The device, called the "second-generation Doubao phone," is marketed by Nubia as the "world's first AI agent phone," built end-to-end by ZTE's Nubia, and pitched on letting users execute complex cross-app tasks with a single spoken instruction, with the Doubao phone assistant leading the AI experience; it starts at 5,999 yuan. Hardware includes a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 platform, a 6.78-inch 1–144Hz LTPO 2.0 display, a 200MP main camera, a 7,100mAh battery, a dedicated AI key with integrated fingerprint recognition, and Seed's latest full-duplex speech model.
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