Meta Adds Spaces to Its Muse Agent for Projects That Keep Themselves Up to Date

Each Space sits in the sidebar of the Muse interface and holds a conversation focused on one goal, such as planning a holiday or collecting recipes for a family event. Meta calls them "custom experiences" and gives examples including a holiday gift tracker, a wedding planner and a board for DIY projects.

The feature moves Muse further from a chat assistant towards software that keeps working when the user is not talking to it, which is the direction Meta, OpenAI and others are taking their consumer agents.

"Describe an idea in chat, and Muse builds a space for you, whether that's a tracker, a planner or a project board," Meta said. Users can link third-party apps and data sources. "Connect the apps you use, and your spaces keep themselves up to date in the background, so new concert dates, price changes, or savings progress show up without you having to ask," the company said.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's founder and chief executive, promoted the feature on X on Friday, writing that he had used it to make "a BBQ game, an event tracker, and a home control dashboard."

Spaces is the second Muse feature Meta has released in a week. On Thursday it launched Muse Voice, which lets users video chat with their agent and give it spoken commands, along with more expressive avatars.

Meta launched Muse as a personal agent in the US in September. On the company's October earnings call, Zuckerberg said its agents had 10 million users in the US and Canada less than two months after their debut. Muse competes with other consumer agents built around cartoon-like characters, including OpenAI's dots and Grokbot from SpaceXAI.

Meta did not say whether Spaces costs extra. Muse is free for most uses, with paid subscription plans for heavier use.