Overview
- Meta made Muse AI available in the United States on web, iOS, Android and WhatsApp as a consumer-facing agent that can answer questions, search the web, make purchases, generate content and connect to services like Gmail, calendars and shopping apps.
- Meta says Muse runs inside a dedicated virtual machine that stores payment details and passwords in encrypted storage and uses a separate watcher process to monitor internet access, and the company plans a future Muse Confidential VM that will let users hold their own encryption keys.
- Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated Muse on a podcast, showing it plan family baking projects, monitor permissions and analyze MMA training footage, and he noted both helpful outcomes and practical limits such as poor results on complex tasks like cake pops.
- Muse is free with a large weekly token quota and optional subscription tiers to raise usage limits, and analysts say the product could create new revenue from subscriptions and transactions as Meta integrates the agent across its platforms.
- The launch underscores a broader shift from reactive chatbots to persistent background agents that require access to sensitive accounts, raising trade-offs between convenience and user trust as Meta stresses technical safeguards but work on reliability and privacy features continues.