I Tried The 4 Hottest Agents Right Now (Grok Bot, Muse, Instinct, Hermes)
Leveling Up with Eric Siu
September 23, 2026
Meta Muse, Grok Bot, Instinct and Hermes: which AI agent is best for real work? I walk through the tasks I use each one for in my business and personal life, then share my daily-driver verdict.
Speakers Eric Siu
TopicsEntrepreneurshipBusinessEducationSelf-Improvement
Eric Siu (0:00)
Meta Muse, Instinct, Grok Bot, and Hermes. The question is, which of these autonomous agent is better? And I'm gonna walk through all the use cases that I'm using these for right now, from a personal and also from a business standpoint too. So you can get a whole sense of how these work and how they might work for you. So the first one up is Meta Muse. So what I wanna show you here is, I just said, hey, you know what? Why do you help me optimize this Instagram reel over here? So it's connected to my Instagram, right? And I said, hey, this video recently was performing decently well on my Instagram.
And so it recut the video and it said, okay, this opens with a format grid now, steal my 50 short form formats, and then your intro explanation and then comment format at the end of it. So it actually edited it, right? So I'll show you the edit real quick. So here's how it looks right now. It's not bad because it's leading with a visual hook, right? So that's helpful to me. And I'm like, okay, this has taste, this understands what's missing from my original Instagram reel, right? And it can see it in my Instagram edit and knows what I need to change. And then I sent it the original version over here. So GPT-6 also made me a short form ad library over here. So it actually said, hey, you should just start leading off with that first and you should start with the big payoff first, right? So anyway, I see a lot of potential here and this is going to get better. Their models are going to get better and better for Meta Muse. And so to me, from a usage standpoint, I'm not even going hardcore on the usage right now. Look, I'm on the free plan. I only use 35% and I used it pretty heavily this morning. And I would also say that I'm doing this YouTube session right now. I said, hey, you know what? I just dictated out using Whisperflow. I said, hey, now based on all the success you've seen from my channels, whether it's YouTube X, which I've added those connectors and you have Instagram, I want you to give me some long form ideas to attack today. Cause today's the day that I want to spend time making long forms like this, right? Because the other time I'm focused on operating my business. Right? So anyway, I was like, hey, I can probably convert some ideas into a long form. So I said, hey, instead of using Grok Bot, let's cover GPT-6, Astra instead, because that formatting has worked. So anyway, it's like, okay, I pull it from your live YouTube and X right now.
And here's what it says. Okay, I ran my agency on AM for seven days, seven Astra agents I used to run my business, the chief of staff bot, I turned my marketing team into 10 AI agents. So like good, but not amazing yet, right? So you have to continue to give this stuff feedback. And it does remember the feedback over time. So I said, look, number one is good. I just gave all the feedback over here, right? And so then it went for another round, which is my first time seeing this right now. Okay, here's a new brief over here. The six with headlines and thumbnails, seven chat, GPT-6, Astra agents I used to run my business. And by the way, leave a comment if you actually want me to make this content and just leave a comment anyway, right? Like it, like it's like subscribe, right? Help us grow here. All right. So seven chat, GPT-6, Astra agents I used to run my business. Okay, cool. Or I can say I used to run my marketing, right? Which I think I might have done already, but it's based off these numbers over here. So in those on YouTube, I recently got these numbers and then I got, you know, pretty good engagement on X as well. So it's like, okay, well, if you're performing these two areas, you should probably do this one over here. I'm like, okay, makes sense.
How I replaced my entire, how AI replaced my entire marketing team. I would change that. I would say how GPT-6 replaced my entire marketing team. And that's more sensational, right? It gets the clicks, but that's based off of packaging that worked really well earlier this year.
I run my entire business on AI agents for seven days, or I ran my agents, okay, not bad. Five AI sales bots that book meetings while I sleep.
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