Meta brings Muse AI assistant to iPad
Meta has released its AI agent Muse for iPad, about a month after the assistant's initial mobile launch. The company is expanding Muse's availability and integrations rapidly, according to TechCrunch AI.
Meta has released its AI agent Muse for iPad, about a month after the assistant's initial mobile launch. The company is expanding Muse's availability and integrations rapidly, according to TechCrunch AI.
TechCrunch AI reports on a discussion from the Equity podcast about Meta’s new AI announcement. The conversation focused on how Meta’s news overshadowed OpenAI and Anthropic.
At Meta’s Connect keynote, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company is “going all‑in” on its Muse AI agent and revealed plans to integrate Muse into Meta’s AI glasses. The presentation outlined multiple new Muse features announced at the Menlo Park event.
Meta’s personal AI agent Muse reportedly outperformed ChatGPT’s early engagement numbers and is being positioned for integration with smart glasses. The milestone came during a week when Anthropic released Opus 5.5 and OpenAI updated GPT-6 within minutes of each other, according to TechCrunch AI.
Appfigures estimates that Meta’s new AI agent Muse achieved higher downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same post-launch period. TechCrunch reports these figures based on Appfigures’ comparison of the two mobile debuts.
Sandhya Devanathan is leaving Meta to join OpenAI, where she will oversee some operations across Southeast Asia and Australia. The move comes as Meta faces increasing scrutiny in India, according to TechCrunch AI.
Meta published Glimmer, an open-weight model users can download and run on their own hardware, while keeping a more powerful model, Muse Spark, behind APIs. The company accompanied the release with a letter from Mark Zuckerberg saying AI should be "for everyone."
Meta introduced Muse Code, an AI agent designed to work with large, complex software projects. The company says the agent can handle complex coding tasks across extensive code bases.
On Meta’s Q2 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg described a “large enterprise opportunity” that includes AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software. The comment frames enterprise-facing products as part of Meta’s strategic AI priorities.
Meta is investing billions in AI infrastructure and agents, and Mark Zuckerberg told investors he expects billions of people to use personal AI agents within five years. He is positioning these investments as long-term bets on future product and revenue growth, according to TechCrunch AI.
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to lease compute capacity from Meta in a deal that could be worth about $10 billion. The move would see Meta expand its role toward becoming a cloud provider for large AI workloads, according to reports.
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri suggests companies will treat AI token spending like payroll or other operating costs. He predicts engineers could soon face individual limits on how much they spend using AI tools.