Meta Muse launches consumer agents challenging China

As the U.S. consumer AI agent boom gains momentum with products from Meta, OpenAI, and xAI, Chinese tech giants and startups are racing to develop their own task-completing assistants. However, China's landscape is heavily dominated by entrenched super apps like WeChat and Alipay, which control critical user information and infrastructure. Consequently, independent developers and device makers face significant hurdles in cross-platform integration and must rely on negotiated access and specialized protocols to operate within existing platforms. Open article →