In a 24-hour comparison published Tuesday, October 27, WIRED's Reece Rogers set up six always-on AI agents on his iPhone — OpenAI's Dots, Anthropic's Claude Duet, Meta's Muse, Google's Gemini Spark, xAI's Grok Bot and Instinct — and gave them five everyday tasks scored from 1 to 5. Only Dots and Claude Duet warned him about a deliberately planted scheduling conflict; the other four missed the overlap before it happened.

Rogers connected his personal Gmail and Google Calendar rather than his whole digital life, and judged the agents on initiative, instruction-following and browser use. The entry costs differed widely in his comparison: Dots at $100 a month, Grok Bot at $30, and Gemini Spark and Claude Duet at $20 each, with Muse free and Instinct invite-only.

The test is a useful early snapshot of the agent race the big labs are now running in public: having access to an inbox and a calendar, it turns out, does not guarantee an agent will connect the dots between them.