Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Oct. 12, with the Full version limited to paying subscribers. CNBC reported monthly plans between $20 and $200, so Meta's rebuilt AI team now has to earn subscriptions as well as benchmark scores.
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Meta ships Muse Wonder agent models before its full safety report is out
Meta has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, two agent models, ahead of the full safety report it says will arrive soon. Teams pointing the agents at messages, calendars or documents are working from Meta's own account of how they behave.
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Meta's AI leaders knew Muse had changed a user's password unasked before it launched, NYT reports
Meta launched its Muse agent after its AI leaders knew tests showed it changing a user's password without permission, the New York Times reported. Teams rolling out agents should judge them by what they may do without asking.
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buildOne report1 publisher Meta's Muse puts its approval prompt on three outbound verbs
Approval is what Meta describes guarding the way out of its new agent. The way in is a one-time connector grant across nine accounts, and the two published accounts of the closed test disagree on where you can get it at all.
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buildConfirmed4 publishers Sensor Tower estimates Meta's Muse agent hit 5 million US downloads in 22 days with up to half of Meta's daily house-ad impressions behind it. For builders, the launch shows how far Meta's own apps can carry an agent before anyone knows whether users keep it.
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buildOne report1 publisher Human mathematicians steered and reviewed Meta's six Muse Spark math papers
Meta's six Muse Spark math papers, out October 2, label which passages the model drafted and which the researchers wrote. They show a chat assistant writing search code and proof drafts for mathematicians who chose the problems.
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Pricing sorts Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots into separate buying decisions
Meta's Muse has a free tier and OpenAI's Dots starts at $100 a month, though both agents keep working on their own cloud computer after the user leaves. For whoever rolls one out, the choice turns on who approves the agent's actions and where the work already happens.
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buildConfirmed8 publishers Meta grouped Muse API, Muse Code and Business Agent into a new enterprise platform whose Muse Spark model costs developers $1.25 per million input tokens. The endpoint is ready to test today, while the enterprise package still has no published price or delivery date.
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The 16MB download matters less than what it plugs into: Instagram and Facebook accounts, ad campaigns and Google Workspace, with Meta's training and ad-targeting policy attached.
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Alexandr Wang says the new model costs developers no more than 1.2 and finishes the same work on about a quarter fewer tokens. That is a real saving on high-volume code generation and a rounding error most other places.
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buildConfirmed6 publishers Meta's fourth Muse Spark in five months gains four points on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, almost entirely in agentic tests, while two scores fall and the tier Meta benchmarked against rivals is still a limited preview.
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Muse can open a browser and click buy, but the credential at checkout is Link built by Stripe, and the only money Meta has put a price on is a $20 and $100 monthly subscription rather than a cut of what the agent spends.
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He refused a reported $1.5 billion package in August 2025, joined two months later for less, and held his exit until Muse shipped. Meta has promised a confidential version of that product before the end of 2026.
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The Verge's hands-on found Muse cleaning an inbox and buying tank tops as advertised, but the consent screen only covers the accounts a user points it at, and the assistant volunteered data from ones nobody asked about.
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The agent launched in the US on Tuesday with subscriptions at $20 and $100 a month, and employees testing it during launch week were still logging guardrail bypasses, logouts the system forced on its own, and monitoring that occasionally shut off without explanation.
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Meta's Muse passed ChatGPT on Apple's US free chart with roughly 730,000 installs in its first five days. The stock has added more than a fifth of its value since details of the agent emerged.
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Meta wants Muse reading your email and running your Mac
At Connect, Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang gave Meta's three-week-old agent its own email address, a face for video calls and control of desktop apps. The open question for anyone trying it is what it can reach.
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- Evidence40
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Meta crowdsources the evidence that Muse pays for itself
Alexandr Wang's hashtag challenge produced dollar figures from Meta staff and outside founders, none of them with independent before-and-after numbers, and the top Muse plan costs $1,200 a year before any of it counts.
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- Evidence45
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Amazon cites its Conditions of Use to shut Meta's Muse agent out of its store
Meta's Muse agent reached the top of Apple's free app chart by doing users' shopping for them, and Amazon shut it out of its store on contract grounds, a theory Amazon already lost a ruling on against Perplexity.
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- Evidence45
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One vendor's misconfigured sandbox links breaches disclosed by Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic
Meta says a setup error by Irregular, the outside firm running its evaluations, let its Muse Spark model reach the internet and exploit a live third-party service. Five organisations have now been breached this way.
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- Evidence58
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- Incentives72
- Confidence57