Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?
Meta is aggressively promoting its new AI personal agent, Muse, as the central pillar of its future strategy to shift focus away from the metaverse. The company plans to integrate Muse into its operating systems and launch a new wearable device called the Muse Charm later this year. Despite early user interest, analysts suggest this rapid expansion is partly a strategic move to justify Meta's massive infrastructure spending to investors.
- ▪Mark Zuckerberg described Muse as the centerpiece of Meta's vision, predicting it will become a personal superintelligence for billions of users.
- ▪Meta is developing the Muse Charm, a strapless smartwatch with a screen that allows users to interact with their AI agent, scheduled to ship later this year.
- ▪Meta plans to spend up to $145 billion on infrastructure and capital expenditures this year, a figure that exceeds the cumulative losses of its Reality Labs division since 2021.
- ▪The Muse agent can perform tasks like filling out forms and paying bills by connecting to services like Google Workspace and bank accounts.
- ▪Early usage data showed over 500,000 users in the first week, which is significantly lower than the rapid adoption seen with Meta's Threads app.
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Meta Can Muse make us forget the metaverse? Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though) Casey Newton 24 Sep 2026 — 10 min read Share (Meta) This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here.The first time I attended a Meta developer conference devoted primarily to bots was a decade ago. In 2016, the company then known as Facebook released a bot platform for Facebook Messenger.
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