Muse

Meta's personal AI agent that completes real tasks like booking and shopping on a dedicated secure cloud VM, not just a chatbot.

Meta · Consumer AI apps, search, and assistants (AI browsers, answer engines, personal assistants) · product

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Overview

Meta launched Muse on September 8, 2026, describing it as a secure, private personal AI agent that proactively helps with people's goals rather than just answering questions. Muse runs on a dedicated Muse Secure VM with its own browser, storing a user's connected-app credentials there, and a Sentinel sub-agent requires approval before sensitive actions like payments. It is powered by Meta's Muse Spark model, remembers user preferences to make unprompted suggestions, and connects to payment rails including Link by Stripe (with Shop Pay coming). Muse rolled out first in the US on iOS, Android, muse.ai, and WhatsApp, passed 2.5 million downloads within two weeks per Sensor Tower, and has drawn friction from Amazon, which blocked Muse from completing purchase transactions on Amazon.com. Meta shipped a native macOS app for Muse around September 17-18, 2026, giving the agent access to the Mac's Files, Mail, Messages, Calendar, and Notes apps so it can sort files, pull information out of email threads, add calendar events, and draft Messages replies on the user's behalf; Mac actions run through the same cloud Muse Secure VM, with the Sentinel gating layer still requiring explicit approval before sensitive outbound actions like file deletion, email sends, or purchases.

This is a sourced directory entry. Features and capabilities are reported in the linked sources; this entry does not document independent Aymorphic testing.

Key features

  • Runs on a dedicated Muse Secure VM with its own browser and securely stored app credentials
  • Sentinel sub-agent requires explicit approval before sensitive actions such as payments, purchases, file deletion, or sending email
  • Persistent memory that remembers preferences (e.g., dietary restrictions) and proactively suggests actions
  • Payment integration via Link by Stripe, with Shop Pay integration coming
  • Continues working asynchronously in the background after the app is closed
  • Powered by Meta's Muse Spark model; planned Muse Confidential VM will add end-to-end encryption of VM data with a user-held key
  • Native macOS app (Muse for Mac) with access to Files, Mail, Messages, Calendar, and Notes, acting on the user's behalf across those native apps

Use cases

  • Booking travel, movie tickets, and appointments end to end
  • Turning a saved recipe or Instagram post into a grocery list or dinner-party menu
  • Automating recurring personal admin like permission slips and scheduling
  • Agentic online shopping and checkout across connected merchants
  • Desktop file organization, email triage, and calendar/message management on Mac

Pricing

Free tier (100 million Muse tokens/week); Power tier $20/month (500 million tokens/week); Maximum tier $100/month (3 billion tokens/week).

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Dates and sources

Released
8 Sept 2026
Record updated
25 Sept 2026
Record last checked
25 Sept 2026

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