Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta is beginning to win over Wall Street following Tuesday’s launch of its new AI app, Muse. The tech giant’s push into agentic AI is also a hot topic on X among industry players. Now, early numbers offer better insight into how popular Muse actually is among its target market of U.S. consumers.

According to new data provided by the market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, Muse has been downloaded north of 83,000 times on iOS in the United States. (The app is currently limited to the U.S. for now.)

While this pushed Muse into the No. 2 position on the App Store’s Top Charts, its launch pales when compared with other recent app debuts from Meta, like Threads and Meta AI, the data indicates. For instance, Threads was downloaded more than 4.3 million times in the U.S. on its launch day, and the Meta AI app saw 108,000 U.S. downloads during its debut.

Muse is also further behind when compared with another notable consumer AI app’s launch: ChatGPT. In less than a week after its arrival, ChatGPT had topped half a million installs in the U.S., which was also its only market at the time. If that spread was divided evenly, that would mean ChatGPT was seeing an average of 83,300 downloads daily at its debut — a number that it took Muse twice the time to achieve.