Meta Debuts Muse, Its Long-Planned Personal AI Agent 17
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang. "The product, long in development, was touted as a key next step by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his recent 6,500-word manifesto," reports Axios. From the report: Muse, as the agent is known, exists in a chat interface, similar to a text thread. It's designed to be more proactive and long-running than typical chatbots. Users can name their agent, create an avatar and customize how it communicates. The Muse agent runs on a dedicated virtual machine in Meta's cloud, using a built-in browser that's visible to the user.
Meta is offering a free tier of Muse, as well as two subscription options, at $20 per month and $100 per month. "For the vast majority of users, they should be able to do what they need to within the free tier," Wang told Axios. "But for real power users, you know, those subscription tiers help us cover the computer costs." There is no advertising within Muse, but Wang said the company is exploring commerce opportunities that could generate additional revenue. Initially Muse will be available in the U.S. and works on iOS, Android and the web, with support coming soon for Meta's AI glasses. "The full vision in the future is we want to develop personal superintelligence that helps people accomplish their goals, pursue their passions, build things that they never would have built if they didn't have the technology," Wang told Axios.
Meta offers users more privacy controls with Muse than in its previous AI products, including the option to prevent queries from being used by Meta and a planned confidential mode where the company cannot see activity inside a user's virtual workspace. There's also an entirely separate system called Sentinel that governs Muse's access to the internet and connected services.
Meta is offering a free tier of Muse, as well as two subscription options, at $20 per month and $100 per month. "For the vast majority of users, they should be able to do what they need to within the free tier," Wang told Axios. "But for real power users, you know, those subscription tiers help us cover the computer costs." There is no advertising within Muse, but Wang said the company is exploring commerce opportunities that could generate additional revenue. Initially Muse will be available in the U.S. and works on iOS, Android and the web, with support coming soon for Meta's AI glasses. "The full vision in the future is we want to develop personal superintelligence that helps people accomplish their goals, pursue their passions, build things that they never would have built if they didn't have the technology," Wang told Axios.
Meta offers users more privacy controls with Muse than in its previous AI products, including the option to prevent queries from being used by Meta and a planned confidential mode where the company cannot see activity inside a user's virtual workspace. There's also an entirely separate system called Sentinel that governs Muse's access to the internet and connected services.
Where's The Price War? (Score:3)
All these AIs fighting for their piece of the pie. I'd expect such competition to lower prices. Yet everyone, regardless of quality/capability, seems to be stuck with Free(crap), $20, and $100 tiers.
Pretty pricey for a flooded market, I think.
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If you use a provider like OpenRouter you can use any AI on a per-token basis. You can even switch from one to the other with the press of a button (almost).
FWIW, I still pay for a $20/month Claude subscription ... but if that plan didn't work well for me, I could very easily use other AIs at other rates with OpenRouter.
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If you want to chat (not code) the 20 USD deal is usually better. You get a lot of chats with high end models that can easily cost 20 USD after just a few chats using the API. The flatrates is where the subvention money goes, the APIs must be profitable to the companies.
Re:Where's The Price War? (Score:5, Interesting)
The biggest use case (Score:2)
"Long Planned" is not "Long awaited" (Score:3)
Did anyone ask for this? Or will this be yet another AI product shoved down the throats of people that don't want it?
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No. Yes.
MetaMusel (Score:2)
superintelligence?!? (Score:3)
People don't need intelligent assistants, they need wise assistance. Even if it speaks poor grammar, wisdom that isn't wrong would be a far superior product.
Just imagine the additional amount of data... (Score:3)
There is no advertising within Muse (Score:2)
A-muse-ing (Score:2)
Sorry, Meta. You're so late to the party that all the guest have already gone home about a year ago.
Is that a metaverse thing? (Score:2)
Or some other failure by zuck-the-fuck?
Mixed Signal Analysis (Score:1)
So now when I search for music by the band Muse, they're going to think people are interested in their dogshit "product"? How can I make it explicitly clear in my search that I'm not?
That’s a great solution (Score:3)
I totally get why Meta wants this product to exist!
Thanks, but I’ll pass. I’m sure there will be suckers who fall for this.
And if it fails they’ll still sneak it into insta, Facebook or WhatsApp.
That's great! (Score:2)