Meta’s Muse AI app hit 2.8 million downloads in its first 12 days across the US and Canada. On iOS in those two markets, Muse drew 1.8 million downloads, compared with ChatGPT’s 1.3 million in the same early window, per Apptopia data reported by Reuters.
Every download becomes live inference traffic within minutes of the first open.
That is what the news leaves out. Consumer AI adoption now moves fast enough to spike inference demand by millions of sessions inside two weeks, with no ramp period to plan around.
Fixed data center buildouts get sized years ahead based on a forecast. Aethir’s decentralized GPU network exists for exactly this case, where the launch doesn't wait for anyone’s schedule.