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Meta outlines India pricing for Muse AI agent ahead of launch

The Hindu

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Meta displayed rupee-denominated subscription prices for its Muse AI agent ahead of its official Indian launch.

Prelims Pointers

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables computer systems to perform tasks such as recognising patterns, processing language and supporting decisions.

  • AI applications include:

    1. Industrial energy optimisation.

    2. Assistance in disease diagnosis.

    3. Text-to-speech conversion.

    4. Generation of text, images, audio and computer code.

  • Generative AI produces new content in response to instructions or other inputs.

  • An AI agent can pursue a goal through a sequence of actions.

    1. It can plan steps.

    2. It can use external tools and software services.

  • Muse supports tasks such as customer-service interactions, form filling and travel planning through web and WhatsApp interfaces.

Other AI agents and their developers

  • Foreign companies:

  1. Dots by OpenAI: Personal agents for ongoing assistance across connected tools and projects.

  2. Grok Bot by SpaceXSI: Uses a cloud computer and connected apps to carry out tasks and routines.

  3. Devin by Cognition: A software-engineering agent for coding, debugging and software-development tasks.

  4. Claude Code by Anthropic: A coding agent that can edit code, run tests and work with development tools.

  5. Agentforce by Salesforce: A platform for creating and deploying agents for customer service, sales and business workflows.

  6. Perplexity Computer by Perplexity AI: Coordinates AI agents to research, analyse information and complete multi-step workflows.


  • Indian companies:

  1. Zia Agents by Zoho: Business agents for tasks such as responding to emails, scheduling meetings and tracking refunds.

  2. Haptik AI Agents by Jio Haptik: Conversational agents for customer support, sales and bookings through chat and voice.


Prelims Traps

  • “AI applications are confined to generating text and images.” This is incorrect. AI can also support disease diagnosis, industrial energy optimisation and text-to-speech conversion. (UPSC Prelims 2020)

  • “An AI agent must be a physical robot.” This is incorrect. It can operate entirely through software tools and online services.

  • “A user’s payment authorisation is sufficient even when the agent lacks a working payment integration.” This is incorrect. Both appropriate authorisation and technical access are necessary.

How much can you remember?

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