A wave of personal AI agents is sweeping in, ushering in a new force in office assistants

Domestic tech giants are jumping in one after another. Meta’s Muse has topped the US free-app charts, Instinct has raised 1 billion, OpenAI’s AI agent Dots has made its debut, and Butterfly Effect has raised over 500 million. With cloud computers and persistent memory, personal agents are the new darlings, as Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance all rush to stake their claims.