Meta Expands Muse AI Agent with Avatars, Mac Control, and Commerce
At its Connect event, Meta unveiled major updates to its personal AI agent, Muse, including a new real-time avatar feature, macOS integration, and a dedicated email address. The company also announced partnerships with Stripe, Shopify, PayPal, and retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, and Sephora to enable agentic shopping. Meta aims to make Muse a central platform for everyday tasks, leveraging its Muse Spark multimodal model. CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized a long-term vision of Muse as a 'personal superintelligence,' with monetization expected through transaction fees. The announcement also highlighted the opening of its connector platform to developers, which has already received over 1,500 applications.
- •Meta announced Muse Realtime Avatar, a new AI model for real-time video chat with a digital avatar of the agent.
- •Muse will be integrated with Meta's smart glasses, allowing voice-activated interactions.
- •Muse will come to macOS, enabling the agent to operate any app on a user's desktop.
