Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS

Meta is bringing its Muse AI cause to the Apple Watch and Android’s Wear OS, the institution announced connected Monday. With the launch, users tin present interact with Meta’s AI adjunct done dependable calls, substance messages, oregon dictation straight connected their smartwatch.

The smartwatch motorboat comes conscionable a period aft Meta introduced a dedicated iPad app for Muse. First launched connected the App Store successful September, the AI assistant’s enlargement crossed Apple devices signals Meta’s increasing ambitions for its user AI merchandise and its absorption connected making Muse a cardinal portion of its ecosystem.

Muse is present 1 of dozens of consumer-facing AI agents competing for users’ attention. Like galore of its competitors, it allows users to link their accounts to negociate email, meetings, bills, and more, portion besides handling tasks specified arsenic booking reservations, ordering groceries, mounting goals, and making purchases.

Users tin besides personalize their Muse avatar to their liking and alteration it into thing that resembles a person, an animal, oregon different benignant of character.

Despite being a comparatively caller product, Meta has wasted small clip introducing caller capabilities to Muse.

A fewer days ago, Meta launched Spaces, a caller mode to pass and collaborate with Muse. Spaces relation arsenic dedicated conversations astir circumstantial topics, which Meta describes arsenic “custom experiences” arsenic they’re mini apps that are built connected the fly. They look successful the sidebar of the Muse interface and bring up a focused speech wherever the AI cause works toward a peculiar extremity connected the user’s behalf.

Last week, Meta rolled retired the quality for users successful the U.S. to video chat with their Muse AI avatar. Meta said Muse volition usage “subtle expressions and gestures” that bespeak the code and discourse of the speech arsenic it speaks. It’s worthy noting that Muse doesn’t really spot users, but tin perceive them and respond successful real-time.

Shortly aft its launch, Muse became 1 of conscionable 12 mobile apps to person surpassed 10 cardinal U.S. downloads wrong their archetypal 40 days successful the App Store. Only 11 different apps person achieved this milestone, with Meta’s Threads being the astir caller successful July 2023.