Meta wants Muse to be somewhere you keep working, not just something you chat with. The company has launched Spaces, a feature that lets its AI agent build persistent, topic-specific workspaces on request, TechCrunch reported Friday.

Spaces live in the sidebar of the interface where you talk to Muse. Each one is a standing conversation built around a single goal, such as planning a vacation, collecting recipes for a family event, or tracking holiday gifts. Meta also pitches wedding planners and DIY project boards. "Describe an idea in chat, and Muse builds a space for you, whether that's a tracker, a planner or a project board," Meta says.

The more interesting claim is that Spaces don't go stale. Per Meta, once you connect the apps you use, "your spaces keep themselves up to date in the background, so new concert dates, price changes, or savings progress show up without you having to ask." That is a step beyond a chat history: it is closer to a small app that Muse writes and maintains for you.

Mark Zuckerberg offered a real-world sample on X, writing that he has been "playing around with spaces in Muse lately — tell Muse what you need and it builds it. I've made a BBQ game, an event tracker, and a home control dashboard."

Why it matters

Spaces is the second Muse feature in about a week. On Thursday Meta rolled out Muse Voice, which lets U.S. users video chat with an animated Muse avatar. Together they show Meta building a daily-use layer around the agent rather than racing on model benchmarks alone. Zuckerberg said on the October earnings call that Muse had reached 10 million users in the U.S. and Canada less than two months after launch, according to Fortune.

The competition is similar. TechCrunch notes Muse is up against other friendly-faced agents, including OpenAI's dots and SpaceXAI's Grokbot. Persistent, self-updating workspaces are one way to make an agent harder to leave.

What to watch

Meta has not said in the announcement which third-party apps Spaces can connect to, or how much access Muse needs to keep a space current. Those answers will decide whether Spaces is a genuine productivity tool or a novelty for BBQ-game builders.

— via TechCrunch