Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut
Meta announced the launch of its Muse AI assistant on iPad just one month after its initial mobile release. The app has surpassed 6.6 million installs and allows users to manage various digital tasks through integrated third-party connectors. Meta is also collaborating with industry partners to develop an open standard for identifying AI agents to prevent website blocking issues.
- ▪Muse became available on iPad one month after launching on iPhone and Android on September 8.
- ▪The app has achieved over 6.6 million installs according to Sensor Tower estimates.
- ▪New connectors added for the iPad release include Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Klaviyo, Zoom, Notion, and Granola.
- ▪Meta is working on an open standard to help businesses distinguish between helpful AI agents and malicious bots.
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If there’s any doubt about how seriously Meta is taking AI, here’s a new signal: The company on Wednesday announced that its Muse assistant is now available in a dedicated iPad app. That’s a milestone it took Instagram some 15 years to reach, despite constant user demand. Muse, meanwhile, hit the iPad just a month after launching on iPhone. (To be fair, it may not be as difficult to bring something like Muse to iPad, given its text-heavy interface, where image and video resolution and formatting matter less.) Since launching on iOS and Android on September 8, Muse has topped 6.6 million installs, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
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