Meta Connect 2026: Muse and Meta’s New Devices

The headline: Muse, Meta’s personal AI agent

• Meta introduced Muse, an assistant designed to work across devices—including glasses, computers, email, and a keychain-style gadget.
• Powered by Muse Spark 1.3, it can browse the web, operate a computer, and handle email. Users can copy it on messages or forward emails to it.
• Meta also opened third-party connectors so developers can build integrations.
• The video questions whether Muse represents a new era of computing or another bet on a platform that may not catch on.

How Muse is supposed to protect your data

• Muse runs in a cloud-based Linux virtual machine with its own browser and storage. An agent harness called Hatch manages its tasks.
• Passwords are kept in a separate process. A security component called Sentinel replaces credentials with temporary tokens before the agent uses them.
• Meta offered up to $130,000 for successful prompt-injection attacks.
• However, the video highlights an important caveat: the privacy-protecting VM is still being tested. By default, interactions with Muse may be used to train future models, so Meta’s assurances do not yet mean Meta cannot access or use the data.

Other Meta announcements

• VR glasses: About 100 grams, with 5K micro-OLED displays and IMAX Enhanced certification. Expected next spring for $1,300.
• Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Gen 3: Updated design and a dedicated AI button, priced at $449.
• Audio-only glasses: $349.
• Muse Charm: A small silver device with a touchscreen, fingerprint sensor, 5G connection, and an animated Muse face. Meta says it will arrive during the holiday season.

Context and commentary

• The video recalls Meta’s earlier assistant, M, launched in Messenger in 2015 and shut down in 2018 after relying heavily on human operators.
• It treats Meta’s promises about privacy and the future of the metaverse with skepticism, especially given the default use of Muse interactions as training data.

Sponsor: Hyper Agent

The video also promotes Hyper Agent, a platform for running teams of AI agents in shared Slack channels. Its agents can create marketing materials, draft code changes and pull requests, route questions, and share workspaces, skills, and memories with a team.