Muse vs. Dots vs. Grok Bot: Who Gets Your Credit Card?

In seven weeks, Elon Musk's AI company, Meta and OpenAI all launched the same thing: an AI agent that gets its own computer, keeps working after you close the app, and only taps you on the shoulder when it needs a yes. Grok Bot, Muse and Dots go head to head in six rounds: price, where you can use it, life admin, work, teamwork and trust. Plus Gemini Spark (now called Task), Claude, OpenClaw and Hermes, the napkin math on what "always on" really costs, and the one thing none of them can do yet. This is Versus No. 01 on Futuranatomy: rival tech, head to head, by the numbers. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Three launches in seven weeks 0:55 What an always-on agent actually does 2:17 The lobster that started it 3:33 Contender 1: Grok Bot 4:28 Contender 2: Muse 5:33 Contender 3: Dots 6:40 Gemini Spark, Claude and the rest 7:28 Round 1: Price 7:59 Napkin math: 3 cents an hour? 8:44 Round 2: Where you can use it 9:14 Round 3: Life admin 9:44 Round 4: Work 10:18 Why there's no brains round 10:45 Round 5: Teamwork 11:10 Round 6: Trust 12:40 Final score 12:51 Who should pick what 13:33 The one thing none of them can do yet 🏆 THE SCORECARD (our calls, from the sources below) 1 Price: Muse (free to start; Power $20, Maximum $100) · Grok Bot $30 (X Subscription Premium) · Dots from $100 (ChatGPT Pro) 2 Where you can use it: Grok Bot (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android; rolling out globally) · Muse US + Canada · Dots Pro not in the EU, Switzerland or UK 3 Life admin: Muse (Shopify catalog, one-time card numbers via Link, its own email, calls businesses in beta, WhatsApp) 4 Work: Dots (4,000+ apps; ChatGPT, Slack, Teams; GPT-6 Astra near the top of the Remote Labor Index) 5 Teamwork: Grok Bot (a team of named bots, Team Bots in Slack) 6 Trust: Dots, narrowly (hard limits it can't override, a separate reviewer, no reported incidents, but far fewer users) Final: 2–2–2. Benchmarks test the models, not the apps, so there's no "brains" round: Remote Labor Index (GPT-6 Astra 20.8%), GDPval-AA (Grok 4.7 1,711 vs GPT-6 Astra 1,573), OSWorld-Verified (Muse Spark 1.1 80.7%; humans 72.4%). 🔢 THE NAPKIN • $20 a month ÷ 720 hours ≈ 2.8¢ an hour. • A small cloud computer (AWS t3.medium, 2 vCPU / 4 GB, us-east-1, on-demand list price) ≈ $0.0416 an hour × 720 ≈ $30 a month, before any AI model runs. Big companies pay less than list price, but the point stands: "always on" means always reachable, and the computer sleeps when there's nothing to do. 📚 SOURCES Official: x.ai (Introducing Grok Bot, plans, X Subscription, Team Bots), docs.x.ai (Grok Bot FAQ, approvals & security) · about.fb.com (Introducing Muse; Connect 2026), research.meta.ai (Muse security post), Meta Help Center (Muse subscriptions), Meta bug bounty · openai.com (Introducing dots; how we build safety into dots; GPT-6 Astra), help.openai.com, chatgpt.com/pricing, GPT-6 Astra system card, OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote and "The dots demo, take two" · blog.google and Gemini Help (Gemini Spark / Task) · claude.com (Cowork is now Claude) · github.com/openclaw/openclaw (+ project lore), GitHub API (stars, Oct 19, 2026) · github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent Independent: Remote Labor Index (Scale AI + Center for AI Safety) · Artificial Analysis GDPval-AA · OSWorld-Verified · METR (Hugging Face incident) · SecurityScorecard · Koi Security Press: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac (Sensor Tower), CNBC, Bloomberg (via Bloomberg Línea), Engadget, The Next Web, WIRED, The Verge, Yahoo Finance, Lenny's Newsletter, PPC Land / GeekWire (Amazon block), The Decoder, Builder.io (Grok Bot test), Al Jazeera, iPhone in Canada, Infosecurity Magazine, The Hacker News. Full fact-check log kept for every claim. 🎞 CREDITS • Official footage from Google, Meta, OpenAI, SpaceXAI (Grok), used briefly for commentary and news reporting. • Top comments shown are from the public comment section of Cleo Abram's "The Biggest Launch Since ChatGPT (Muse)"; commenter names are not shown. • Original music, graphics and narration: Futuranatomy. Futuranatomy is not affiliated with xAI/SpaceX, Meta, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Nous Research or the OpenClaw project. Nothing here is sponsored. Futuranatomy: tomorrow's tech, taken apart. #AIAgents #Muse #ChatGPTDots #GrokBot #OpenAI #MetaAI #xAI #GeminiSpark #OpenClaw #AI #TechNews #Futuranatomy