Meta unveils Muse AI agent with subscriptions up to $100
Meta has unveiled the Muse personal AI agent app, which will be available to consumers in the United States. The service will have a free access tier and monthly subscription plans for $20 or $100, depending on usage. As CNBC Top News reports, the app allows users to delegate digital tasks to AI assistants, including booking appointments, filling out electronic forms, and monitoring home security cameras.
Muse features
Muse is powered by the Muse Spark family of foundation models. Meta's head of AI, Alexander Wang, said the app was designed to be understandable and accessible to a broad audience. At the same time, behind the scenes, the agent can perform complex programming tasks, create integrations, and handle other processes.
Users will be able to customize a feed with updates from connected Facebook and Instagram accounts, as well as web materials that the agent will aggregate and summarize. Muse will also be available through WhatsApp, but this version will not include a feed or an ideas tool. In the future, Meta plans to make the service available through Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
Security and data use
According to Wang, Muse operates in an isolated environment within Meta's computing infrastructure, does not gain access to users' passwords or payment data, and requests confirmation before sensitive actions. The company is also involving third-party security researchers in a bug bounty program for identifying vulnerabilities in the agent's operation.
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Interactions with Muse will be used to train Meta's models unless users opt out. Meta Vice President of Engineering David Singleton said that before such use, the company will remove critically important personally identifiable information from conversations and interactions with the agent.
Potential monetization
Meta is considering taking a share of purchases made with the help of the AI agent, but has not yet made a final decision on such a model. The company is also under pressure from investors who expect returns on its artificial intelligence spending and the emergence of new revenue sources beyond digital advertising.
At the same time, Meta agreed to pay nearly $17 billion as part of a settlement with a coalition of U.S. state attorneys general. In the lawsuit, the coalition alleged that the company misled people about the prevalence of harm in the Facebook and Instagram apps. Meta also faces health harm lawsuits and lawsuits from school districts over similar allegations.
