Meta's Muse AI Agent Tops App Store Charts

Meta's new AI agent Muse hit the top of the App Store charts within days of launch and now has roughly 600,000 daily active users in the US, according to an Apptopia estimate. That's a big number for a product built inside Meta's Superintelligence Labs, and it's landed right as the AI agent space gets crowded. Instinct, another agent platform, is reportedly raising money at a $2.5 billion valuation. But the buzz around Muse has a complication: it looks a lot like OpenClaw, the open-source project widely credited with kicking off this wave of AI agents in the first place.

Social media users started pointing out the overlap almost immediately. File names, folder structures, even chunks of the document that governs the agent's tone and personality all bear a striking resemblance between the two platforms. For an open-source project that's been picked apart by developers for months, the similarities weren't hard to spot once people started looking. That's put Meta in the position of explaining exactly how much of Muse came from OpenClaw's playbook, and how much is genuinely Meta's own build.