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Meta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, too

The Verge Jay Peters Covered by 6 sources

Meta is adding email, computer control, and video calls to its Muse AI agent. The bot is moving past plain chat and into more ways to do real tasks.

Based on reporting by The Verge, Jay Peters — read the original for the full story.

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Meta is moving fast on Muse. The AI agent, which only recently launched, is getting a round of upgrades that make it feel less like a chat box and more like something that can actually do work for you.

One change gives Muse its own email addresses. Meta says the agent can use those addresses to complete tasks, and people will be able to reach the agent there as well. That’s a small detail with a big implication: Muse is no longer confined to one chat window.

The Mac app is picking up another useful trick too. Meta plans to let the recently launched Muse Mac app use your computer, which pushes the product closer to the kind of agent people have been imagining when they talk about AI doing things, not just talking about them.

And then there’s video. Meta is adding video calls as another way to interact with Muse, which broadens the experience beyond the text interface that has been the main way to use it since launch. The company isn’t slowing down here; it’s layering on new ways to meet the same agent from different angles.

My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting

Meta clearly wants Muse to feel unavoidable, not optional. Email, computer control, video calls — that’s the usual “AI assistant” pitch, except with a proper product team behind it instead of a demo and a prayer. The real test is whether this becomes useful or just a more elaborate way to ask a bot to do your inbox chores.

Read more about this at: The Verge

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