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Meta Platforms stated that it will introduce Muse into its AI glasses in the coming months.

According to "Dujia," Tencent is secretly developing a Personal Agent product called "Handy Bot" and plans to launch an independent app. Currently, the product has quietly launched a service account on WeChat, with the description "Your Personal AI Agent." Since the product is still in the internal testing phase, specific information is subject to official announcements.The report states that the industry is currently hotly discussing the narrative of Personal Agents, with Meta's recently launched Muse pushing the popularity of consumer-grade intelligent agents to new heights. Unlike traditional chatbots that are conversation-driven, Personal Agents are centered around human core state boundaries, where AI has a long-term operational environment and can receive macro goals to continuously advance tasks in the background. Meta Muse assigns each user an independent Secure VM (Virtual Machine) for security, isolating browser and web operations for tasks such as price comparison shopping, email processing, and itinerary monitoring.Domestic manufacturers are also entering the pre-research phase. The Alibaba Qianwen team proposed creating a Personal Agent for users at the Yunqi Conference, and ByteDance's Doubao has also been reported to be developing a personal assistant product, previously codenamed "Spell." The industry believes that implementation needs to balance model task planning capabilities, ecosystem tool openness, and compliance with privacy boundaries.

Meta Platforms (META.O) launched Muse for small businesses and expanded its artificial intelligence capabilities.

On September 29, according to a report by Phoenix Technology citing Sina Technology, Doubao, a subsidiary of ByteDance, is advancing its product planning in the personal assistant direction. Insiders revealed that continuing the strategy of last year's Doubao mobile assistant in the personal agent direction, internal testing of related exploratory products began in April this year, codenamed Spell, mainly led by the Doubao mobile assistant team, but has not been officially announced due to reasons such as the release of the Doubao mobile phone.The insider stated that as personal assistant products like Muse and Instinct have gained attention overseas, Doubao is also accelerating the external release of personal agent capabilities, planning to integrate the Spell project more deeply with Doubao products. The new product will be jointly managed by the Spell project and the Doubao dialogue team, and it is expected to be launched externally soon. According to "Big Factory Daily," the Doubao product line has received a new task during the Mid-Autumn Festival, requiring a rapid reconstruction of a product that benchmarks Muse, with a beta version developed by September 30 for internal testing, involving the entire Doubao product line and multiple upstream and downstream teams in this holiday development.Previously, the technical preview version of the Doubao mobile assistant made its debut in December 2025, first launched on the ZTE Nubia M153 engineering prototype. In September 2026, the consumer version was officially released, landing on the Nubia NaviX Ultra model. Reports indicate that Spell can be seen as Doubao's extension of the personal agent capabilities accumulated on mobile devices into an independent application form.

According to "Big Factory Daily Explosion," the Doubao product line received an urgent task during the Mid-Autumn Festival, requiring the rapid development of a product to compete with Meta Muse. The project requires completion of joint debugging by September 27 and an internal testing version to be available by September 30, with a total construction period of about 6 days. The Doubao product line and multiple upstream and downstream teams are involved in the development.After launching this month, Meta's Muse quickly became popular, positioned as a Personal AI Agent that can connect to user-authorized services such as email and calendar, operate a browser in an independent cloud environment, and handle tasks like shopping and travel. It can continue to run even after the user exits the app. According to Reuters citing Apptopia data, Muse achieved approximately 2.8 million downloads within 12 days of its release, with a growth rate surpassing that of ChatGPT during its initial mobile launch.

Meta's AI product Muse has been reported to have security vulnerabilities that could endanger user data and the safety of virtual environments. The company plans to enhance risk warnings.

Meta Platforms has launched a portable AI device equipped with the Muse assistant, named Muse Charm, which will begin shipping during the December holiday season.

Meta Platforms announced that it will integrate Muse into all of the company's smart glasses products.

Meta's personal AI assistant Muse has been accused of reading users' private iMessages without permission and providing false explanations about how it accesses this information. Technology columnist Jason Aten installed the assistant on his iPhone and Mac when Muse launched on September 8 and explicitly refused to grant it access to personal data such as information and calendars.A few days later, Muse sent Aten a notification suggesting he write a column about the new iPhone that he had just discussed with his podcast partner, also mentioning a deadline reminder from the editor. Aten asked Muse how it knew this, and it replied that the Mac application only forwards notification previews and does not involve the content of messages. In reality, Muse had synchronized over 187,000 records from the local private information database on the Mac, an operation that requires full disk access permissions on macOS.David Singleton, head of Meta's superintelligent lab, responded on Threads that this feature requires users to actively choose to opt-in. Aten denied ever turning on that switch and stated that Meta had not answered related questions. Amazon has banned Muse from shopping on its site, stating that the assistant did not indicate its AI identity while browsing and seemed capable of capturing and storing user credentials. Since its launch, Muse has been downloaded over 2.5 million times, with its promotion emphasizing user control over access.

According to internal information obtained by 404 Media and Reuters, after Meta expanded the Muse "Call for You" testing, it was revealed that some calls were actually completed by real people. Muse can transfer tasks to real contractors at call centers, who then make calls on behalf of users and fulfill requests. Some testers only realized there was human intervention after the call ended.Meta adopted this approach mainly to improve success rates. Internal testing showed that the success rate of phone tasks could reach 95% to 98% with human intervention, higher than pure AI. Some merchants hang up directly when they hear the other party is AI, and there are also testers in the community who reported that merchants hung up after Muse identified itself as an AI assistant.Human intervention raises privacy concerns, as users originally believed their information was only shared with AI, but it may actually be seen by outsourced personnel. Some people within Meta also questioned that providing privacy training to contractors does not equate to a real safety mechanism. A Meta official later admitted that failing to inform testers in advance about human intervention was a mistake, and this feature has been rolled back. Meta stated that the phone function is still in testing and will only be officially launched after ensuring safety, privacy, and clear communication.

Paypal announced that it will collaborate with Meta to use the Muse agent for shopping and checkout.

UBS strategists pointed out that Meta's new consumer-facing AI entity, Muse, is very popular, indicating that the demand for products in the AI supply chain will increase. The strategists stated that the competition in the AI product sector is fierce, which will drive the demand for computing power and AI infrastructure, benefiting leading companies in the semiconductor and hardware industries.

Meta's stock price soared nearly 12% on September 21 local time, with its founder Mark Zuckerberg's net worth estimated at $253.6 billion (approximately 1.7 trillion yuan), a single-day increase of $25 billion (approximately 167.458 billion yuan).The rise in Meta's stock price is attributed to Wells Fargo raising its target price, combined with investor confidence in the development prospects of its personal AI assistant Muse. On September 21 local time, Wells Fargo raised the stock's target price from $640 to $796 and maintained an overweight rating in anticipation of the Meta Connect conference taking place later this week. The usage statistics of Muse are considered a key indicator that needs attention.

According to GMGN data, the market value of musebook on Robinhood has rebounded to over 20 million USD, with a 24-hour increase of over 300%, currently reported at 21.4 million USD.It is reported that Musebook is a social platform built by developer wyn for the AI Agent (Muse), aimed at allowing different Agents to communicate autonomously, and it quickly gained popularity due to the attention from Meta AI executives. Subsequently, the community created the Meme coin musebook around Musebook and paired it with the tokenized stock META for trading. Market news reminds users that the price of Meme coins is highly volatile, and investors should participate with caution.

According to GMGN market data, the on-chain token Musebook from Robinhood briefly surpassed a market capitalization of 16 million USD, currently reported at 14.25 million USD, with a 384% increase over the past 6 hours and a trading volume of 25.8 million USD in the last 24 hours.Musebook is a social community aimed at AI Agents, designed to facilitate interactions between Agents and between Agents and humans. The platform has a low entry barrier, allowing users to post without needing an account, email, or verification, and also provides an API for reading content and publishing information. The community was founded by @wyn_eth, with the real-time interaction account being @musebooklol. Yesterday, this interaction account announced that it would collect transaction fees generated from Musebook tokens, with funds allocated for platform development.According to market news, the related token has a small market capitalization and significant price volatility, with bottom chips having already made substantial profits, indicating potential selling pressure in the short term; users should invest cautiously.

Zuckerberg stated that every lab has the responsibility and incentive to train models safely at the required speed and has the capability to take action independently. People will not use agents that are not aligned with them or do not act as required, so labs have a strong natural incentive to enhance model alignment. Trust and alignment are rapidly becoming the most important capabilities that distinguish agents from models, and any lab that does not focus on alignment will fall behind.Zuckerberg indicated that labs will face significant liability if their models cause harm, thus there is a strong incentive to prevent this. Meta has postponed the release of Muse by several months to focus on safety and security, and has not asked other labs to follow suit, but rather considers it part of their daily work. Hiring independent evaluators and consultants is an industry best practice, and MSL has been doing this in multiple areas. Allocating most computing power to serve people rather than competing for recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure the safe development of this technology, and Meta has made this commitment.