Meta adds custom app-like spaces to its Muse AI assistant

Meta introduced spaces for its Muse AI assistant on 6 November, The Verge reported, allowing people to create interactive, task-specific pages inside the app by describing what they want. The feature extends Muse beyond conversation: a space can hold information and controls that people return to, rather than requiring a fresh exchange for each task. Meta is rolling it out to all Muse users alongside a specialised version of its Muse Wonder AI model.

Muse spaces begin with a description

Meta says a person can make a space by telling Muse what it should be, then ask the assistant to change it. The examples span several kinds of activity: a shopping hub or school dashboard could organise information, while a music tracker or trivia game would invite a different kind of interaction. In each case, the requested result sits within Muse as something to use, rather than remaining only an answer in a chat.

Spaces also allow direct changes. People can check things off, add notes and edit what is there, according to the report. That gives the feature a practical distinction from a conversation that describes a plan: the resulting space can be changed as the activity continues. Meta says further adjustments can still be made by asking Muse, so the request that created a space is not its final form.

Muse launched in Singapore with links to shopping and travel services, as AI Affairs previously reported. Spaces build on that assistant by giving those sorts of tasks a place within its interface. For companies making single-purpose tools, the relevant overlap is concrete: the shopping hub, tracker and dashboard are examples of activities Meta says can now be assembled inside Muse.

Connected apps can update Muse spaces

A space can be connected to a relevant app, allowing Muse to update prices, dates and other information in the background. The connection matters because a page built from an initial request could otherwise contain information that needs revisiting. Here the connected app supplies changing details while the space remains the place where they are viewed — closer to a noticeboard kept up to date than a note written once and left alone.

Shopping for an item could therefore involve returning to a hub whose pricing has been updated, provided the space is connected to a relevant app. A note could be added there, or something checked off, using the interactions Meta describes. That would bring the changing information and the activity around it into the same place, without requiring every visit to begin by describing the task again.

The app connection also puts Muse between a space and the service supplying its information. That is a consequential position for anyone building a tool around prices or dates: Meta’s described arrangement lets the assistant present updates inside a page the person has customised. Separately, Singapore agencies have warned consumers to limit personal AI agents’ access to their accounts, as AI Affairs reported.

Meta pairs spaces with Muse Wonder

Meta is rolling out spaces to all Muse users together with a version of its Muse Wonder AI model that the company calls “specialized”. The reported change combines a new kind of interface with a model release, though the actions available to people are described through the spaces themselves: asking for one, revising it and interacting with what it contains.

People can place a space in the Muse sidebar, bring it into the main tab or schedule when it appears. Meta gives the example of keeping a weekly planner prominent during the working week and switching to weekend plans on Saturday. Those controls make a space something a person can arrange for a particular time, as well as something they can create for a particular task.

Meta is also looking into ways for people to share spaces with others and collaborate on them.