Meta's Muse, the personal AI agent that keeps working after you close the app

Meta's personal AI agent, Muse, keeps working after you close the app. It comes back when something changes, or when it needs your approval, like before sending an email or buying something.

Talking to Muse works like messaging another person. You can use the Muse app, or message it directly in WhatsApp. You tell it what needs to get done, and it takes action.

Muse can open a web browser, fill out forms, book travel and send email. Meta says it can negotiate for you too, like lowering a bill or selling a car for more.

Share a bigger goal, and Muse breaks it into a plan, then keeps taking the next step on its own. The Goals tab shows everything it's tracking, like meal planning or a family trip.

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The Goals tab tracks each one.

Meta · “How We Designed Muse” · introducing.muse.ai

Muse remembers what matters to you, even details you mentioned only once. It can turn a recipe reel you saved on Instagram into a grocery list. And you can tell it to forget specific things.

You decide which apps Muse connects to, and how much it can do in each. With email, you choose whether it only reads your mail or can also send for you. You can disconnect anytime.

Before sensitive actions, like sending an email or making a purchase, Muse stops and asks. You get Allow and Deny buttons. By default it browses freely and stops for anything hard to undo.

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An Allow or Deny card for anything hard to undo.

Meta · “How We Designed Muse” · introducing.muse.ai

You can check on Muse at any moment. Under its avatar sits a snippet of the current task. Tap the avatar and you get the full activity log, plus every permission you've approved.

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Tap your Muse to see what it's doing

The full activity log, plus every permission you've approved.

Meta · “How We Designed Muse” · introducing.muse.ai

Passwords you share go into secure storage, so Muse can use them without seeing them. When it pays, Link by Stripe creates a one-time card number, and your real card details stay hidden.

Muse runs on its own computer in the cloud. A separate agent called Sentinel runs beside it, and Muse's actions reach the internet only if Sentinel approves. Sentinel asks you when it needs to.

Muse doesn't share your conversations or its data with Meta's ad systems. But sites Muse visits count as your visits, so a store it shops at could later show you an Instagram ad.

By default, your conversations with Muse help train Meta's AI models, with key personal details removed first. If you'd rather they didn't, a single switch in Muse settings turns that off.

Today, Meta limits staff access to your Muse data, but can still reach it to support or secure the service. Later this year, Muse Confidential VM will encrypt it with a key only you hold.

Muse is free for most of what people need, with subscription plans if you want more. It's rolling out in the US on iOS, Android and the web, and coming soon to AI glasses.