Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse

CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses. Meta’s personal AI agent Muse is only a few weeks old, and the social networking giant isn’t wasting any time building out what may be its biggest bet on consumer AI to date.

The Muse agent (the physical avatar is named Jolly, according to Zuckerberg) aims to handle everyday tasks by connecting to users’ apps and services, including email and calendars. At Connect, Zuckerberg introduced a slew of new capabilities and integrations to make Muse more useful and more deeply woven into users’ daily lives. Muse will be everywhere, if the user chooses, including on their Meta AI glasses.

Muse, which launched in early September, interacts across a user’s devices and digital accounts. The agent is powered by Muse Spark, Meta’s multimodal AI model built for agentic work. Meta has touted it as a more accessible agent than those offered by competitors — an AI helper that, from the jump, lets users automate the busy work in their lives.

“The centerpiece of our vision for what we’re building is Muse,” Zuckerberg said as he kicked off a keynote donning khakis and a black T-shirt with the words “Building is My love Language” emblazoned across the front. “In the coming years, I expect that Muse is going to grow into the personal superintelligence that billions of people around the world are going to use to accomplish their goals and improve their lives.” Zuckerberg also believes that Muse will make money for its users — and of course, eventually for Meta. “We’re standing behind this by making Muse free for a huge number of tokens, with the expectation that over time we will profit by taking a small fee from transactions,” he said.

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At its Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced all the new glasses the company is putting out into the world. Its popular Meta Ray-Ban glasses are now in their third generation, but two new models steal the show: a powerful, slimmed-down version of Meta's Quest headsets capable of virtual and augmented reality modes, and a camera-free pair of Ray-Ban–branded smart glasses, called Ray-Ban Meta Audio.

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Meta is also bringing its Muse AI agent to its smart glasses platform. Meta VR Glasses The next evolution of Meta’s Quest VR headset is something truly different.

That means we can expect more news from Zuckerberg and his team on those topics; perhaps we’ll hear more about Meta’s recently launched Muse AI agent and new glasses hardware. Whatever Zuckerberg and Meta have to say about smart glasses will be particularly notable.

Instead of a heavy helmet-like headset, the new Meta VR Glasses look like big goggles. They’re five times lighter than the Meta Quest 3.

The company is dealing with an outpouring of privacy and harassment concerns stemming from the product line’s built-in camera, which has led to them being derided as “pervert glasses.” Meta has already tried to tackle that reputation with recent privacy fixes and a new marketing campaign, but it could introduce more updates on the Connect stage. The show is scheduled to begin at 7PM ET / 4PM PT, and you can follow our live updates here.

They sit on the nose, right in front of your face like glasses, with no headstrap needed. Courtesy of Meta They look and feel more like the virtual display glasses made by companies like Viture, and what Xreal’s Project Aura seems to be shaping up to be—lightweight mixed-reality lenses that let you access virtual spaces without the burden of a VR headset.

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There are no included controllers, though the device can connect to Meta’s previous Quest controllers or gamepads like an Xbox controller. Instead, the wearer controls the device with hand movements and finger pinches, similar to Android XR and Apple’s Vision Pro.

Eye tracking pinpoints what you’re trying to access. You can pinch with two fingers to open an app or interact with something on the screen.

Form a fist and flick your thumb up or down to scroll the screen. Inside, the lenses feature a 5K micro-OLED display with a resolution of 2412 x 2288 pixels per eye.

The computing power is offloaded to an attached compute puck, which also houses the battery. Small prescription lens inserts can be magnetically clipped inside the lenses.