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Quoting John Gruber

Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install easy-to-use way. It’s literally presented as a cute mascot . It’s the first consumer-accessible agentic AI system, and Meta has truly done an amazing job with that. But it’s…

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