The agent race, judged: "Grok Bot is better than Muse and Dots — by a pretty clear margin"
From the AI digest for 2026-10-02
The first blunt independent-ish verdict on the agent race (X, ~7:34 PM ET): after three days with a Dot, Morgan finds Dots impressive but Grok Bot better "at this stage" than Muse and Dots. Companion X-layer color: the reviewer found OpenAI's phone flow "gimmicky, somewhat slow" (dots demo threads, ~12:21 AM ET). The Verge's own Dots hands-on (~2:00 PM ET) landed the complementary frame: "enterprise software that can also order your dinner" — capable, corporate, not consumer-cozy.
What's genuinely new: the first three-way verdict from someone who used all three products in period. Caveat flags: single reviewer, X-grade, no methodology, and "better" is undefined. Still — the race now has a data point that isn't a keynote.