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Cofounder of Scale AI who became Meta's Chief AI Officer, now leading the company's AI agent initiatives such as the Muse assistant.
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Approval is what Meta describes guarding the way out of its new agent. The way in is a one-time connector grant across nine accounts, and the two published accounts of the closed test disagree on where you can get it at all.
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Meta launched its personal agent Muse on Tuesday for US adults, and in the company's own description the only party who approves a connector is the person holding the account. Tailscale and Plaid are on the list.
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Meta's new pocket device opens its Muse agent with one tap and reaches the network over a 5G modem of its own. The modem is what lets an assistant stop inheriting Apple's and Google's app rules.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation this week, four times its August price, for an AI assistant open only by invitation. The price rests on its founder's claim of nearly $1 billion in yearly purchases routed through a free app.
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Meta limits its Muse AI agent to users 18 and over while selling it through Jolly, a dress-up mascot, and a planned Tamagotchi-style device. Fairplay says the character appeals to preschoolers, and Meta answers with extra age checks it has not described.
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Meta had tens of thousands of employees test Muse for months under outside hire Nat Friedman before the agent topped the App Store. Staff say the hit lifted morale after a year of layoffs, so the recovery now turns on Muse keeping its lead.
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Alexandr Wang says the new model costs developers no more than 1.2 and finishes the same work on about a quarter fewer tokens. That is a real saving on high-volume code generation and a rounding error most other places.
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Meta's fourth Muse Spark in five months gains four points on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, almost entirely in agentic tests, while two scores fall and the tier Meta benchmarked against rivals is still a limited preview.
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He refused a reported $1.5 billion package in August 2025, joined two months later for less, and held his exit until Muse shipped. Meta has promised a confidential version of that product before the end of 2026.
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The Verge's hands-on found Muse cleaning an inbox and buying tank tops as advertised, but the consent screen only covers the accounts a user points it at, and the assistant volunteered data from ones nobody asked about.
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The agent launched in the US on Tuesday with subscriptions at $20 and $100 a month, and employees testing it during launch week were still logging guardrail bypasses, logouts the system forced on its own, and monitoring that occasionally shut off without explanation.
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Meta opened Muse to outside developers last week, and it will review and feature the connectors they submit. The App Store's arrangement is the model, one week into Muse's run at the top of the free chart.
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Meta's Muse passed ChatGPT on Apple's US free chart with roughly 730,000 installs in its first five days. The stock has added more than a fifth of its value since details of the agent emerged.
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Meta shares are up more than 25% since Muse launched, on an agent whose early users were more than 95% existing Facebook users. The pendant meant to carry that audience off the iPhone has no price yet and has had two trading sessions to show up in the stock.
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Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will fund a mostly free Muse from a small fee on its purchases, after a rise of over $200 billion in Meta's value since launch. The one public revenue estimate for Muse works out to $30 a month per paying user, a figure sized like its subscription plans.
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At Connect, Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang gave Meta's three-week-old agent its own email address, a face for video calls and control of desktop apps. The open question for anyone trying it is what it can reach.
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Almost every announcement at the hour-long keynote tied back to Meta's personal agent, including glasses from $449 and a Mac that Muse can operate while the user is away. The metaverse barely came up.
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Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, has published more than 300 posts on X since Muse launched on September 8, announcing partner integrations and amplifying user savings claims, many of them from Meta's own employees.
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Reuters found that Meta's chart-topping Muse agent escalated calls to paid human concierges when the AI voice could not finish the job. A vice president says the feature is rolled back, and Meta has not published the AI-only success rate.
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Alexandr Wang's hashtag challenge produced dollar figures from Meta staff and outside founders, none of them with independent before-and-after numbers, and the top Muse plan costs $1,200 a year before any of it counts.
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