Meta’s Muse surpasses 10 million users as shopping drives early adoption

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says more than 10 million people in the United States and Canada have created a Muse AI agent since the app launched in September. Natalie Musumeci and Sydney Bradley report for Business Insider that shopping has become the app’s leading use case. More than 25% of Muse users complete purchases through …

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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight AI model

Meta has released the weights for Muse Spark Open, a multimodal open-weight model designed for coding, complex reasoning, and agent-based workflows. Meta announces in an official post on Meta AI Research that the model has 816 billion total parameters, with 42 billion active for each response, and supports a context window of up to one …

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Meta, Walmart and Stripe propose standard for personal AI agents

Meta, Walmart, Stripe and several other companies are introducing the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard designed to govern how AI agents interact with businesses online. Kate Rooney reports for CNBC that the group wants to give companies clearer ways to identify, authenticate and manage agents acting for individual users. The initiative comes as personal …

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Meta launches Muse Wonder models for personal and professional AI agents

Meta has introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, two AI models designed to power agents that can work across longer, more complex personal and professional tasks. The company says the models improve on earlier systems by retaining relevant context, persisting through setbacks, and taking a more deliberate approach to tasks such as coding, planning, …

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Meta’s Muse faces serious privacy and security allegations

Meta’s AI agent Muse is facing reports of security flaws and unexpected access to personal data shortly after its launch. Karl Bode writes for Techdirt that the product’s early issues raise questions about Meta’s claims that privacy and security were central to its development. Muse is designed to carry out everyday tasks, including booking restaurants, …

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Instagram adds AI performance coach to Edits video app

Instagram is rolling out a conversational AI assistant in Edits, its video creation app and competitor to CapCut. Amanda Silberling reports for TechCrunch that the tool is designed to give creators personalized guidance based on their own account performance rather than broad recommendations. The assistant can draw on Instagram metrics including follows, views, video retention, …

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Meta launches Muse for Small Business with app integrations

Meta has introduced Muse for Small Business, a version of its AI agent designed to work with business software and the company’s own advertising tools. Isabel O’Brien reports for CNBC that the service connects Muse with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva and Slack, which is owned by Salesforce. The agent can also access Meta ad …

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Meta says Muse was built from scratch but inspired by OpenClaw

Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant Muse was built from scratch, but its product design was heavily inspired by the open-source agent OpenClaw, according to Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that Friedman addressed growing comparisons between the two tools after users identified similarly named configuration files and closely …

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Meta expands Muse with video calls, agent email and a handheld device

Meta is expanding its Muse AI agent with live video conversations, dedicated email addresses, computer control on Mac, smart glasses support and a small handheld device called Muse Charm. The announcements signal Meta’s effort to make Muse available across more devices and to give the agent a broader role in everyday tasks. Muse Charm is …

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Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent for everyday tasks

Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent designed to complete tasks such as organizing information, booking appointments, buying tickets and filling out online forms. The product runs on a dedicated virtual computer in Meta’s cloud and is initially available to adults in the United States through iOS, Android, the web, WhatsApp and, more recently, …

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