Meta AI becomes a task-runner and the WhatsApp advantage makes it a real threat

Meta AI now executes scheduled tasks and connects to external apps via Muse Spark 1.1, with WhatsApp integration coming weeks away. The competitive threat to standalone AI assistants is not the model quality but Meta's 3 billion-user messaging distribution, which makes generic consumer agents unviable without narrow vertical focus.

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