Meta's Muse AI agent surpasses 10 million downloads
The Verge: In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse
Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives - shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people's AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrelenting vision of a life in which we communicate primarily through bot proxies? Actually, don't answer that. The more urgent question coming off Meta's quarterly earnings call Wednesday night is more likely to be: "Is he?" Zuckerberg is staking M
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Meta's leadership is betting the company's future on Muse, a personal AI agent that recently launched to the public and has already been downloaded by more than 10 million users in the US and Canada. The vision involves billions of people using Muse agents that would shop, work, and communicate with other people's AI agents on their behalf, with Meta earning fees from the commercial transactions that take place on the platform. The company is spending between $135 billion and $145 billion on AI infrastructure in the coming year, but faces significant challenges including high compute costs that have prevented a global rollout and concerns about data privacy and security, as well as questions about whether consumers and businesses will actually adopt this model of AI-mediated interaction.
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