Meta and other tech companies are betting that fuzzy mascots can win over AI skeptics Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI are each leveraging cute designs and products to appeal to consumers. I, Meta, Claude, iStockphoto On top of technical performance metrics, there seems to be a new criteria to judge AI agents by: cuteness. became the poster child for cute agents last month when it introduced its AI agent Muse, branded with a fuzzy avatar named Jolly. The avatar, which users can customize and rename to their liking, sits at the top of the Muse chat interface and displays a typing animation as it processes queries.
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