AI brief
Two rival AI assistants, Instinct and Meta's Muse, can now place calls on users' behalf, such as making restaurant reservations and cancelling subscriptions.
Why it matters: It shows AI assistants expanding from chat into acting on a user's behalf over the phone.
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Background
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Meta
- Latest funding
- $95B · 26 Oct 2026
- Newest model on the API
- Muse Spark Open · 15 Oct 2026 · $1.25 in / $4.25 out per million tokens
- Last 30 days
- 108 news stories
Instinct
- Latest funding
- Series C · $1B · 28 Sept 2026
- Last 30 days
- 2 news stories
Source
“People can use these assistants to make restaurant reservations and cancel subscriptions.”
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