TechAINewsMeta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, tooMuse started as a chatbot but will soon be an AI avatar you can talk with over video.Muse started as a chatbot but will soon be an AI avatar you can talk with over video.by Jay PetersSep 23, 2026, 11:19 PM UTCShareGiftImage: The Verge, Getty Images, MetaPart OfMeta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcementssee all updates Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat with you in more ways.Muse agents are getting their own email addresses that they can use for accomplishing tasks. You’ll also be able to communicate with your Muse agent over the new email addresses, too. In addition, the recently launched Muse Mac app will be getting the ability to use your computer.Meta is also going to give you another way to chat with its popular AI agent: video calls.
Since its recent launch, the primary way to talk with Muse was through a chat interface, but you’ll soon be able to have live video conversations with your Muse avatar. Meta will let you tweak the way your Muse avatar sounds — you can already customize the way it looks — and a new Muse Realtime Avatar model will inform how it moves.Muse launched earlier this month, and it’s seemingly proving to be a hit, topping the App Store charts and reportedly being downloaded more than ChatGPT on mobile in its first 12 days. Meta appears to be capitalizing on the popularity by quickly introducing the new videocalling features, but that’s not all that’s new for the agent. Meta says it plans to launch Muse on its smart glasses in the coming months, which will let you talk to Muse about what you’re looking at while wearing your glasses.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Jay PetersAIMetaNewsTechMeta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launchJay Peters, Victoria Song and 1 more50 minutes agoMost PopulariPhone owners can now submit claims in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI settlementActivision is taking over Halo as part of a massive Xbox shake-upAnthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to CrisprXbox is barely Xbox anymoreCan you forget how you feel about Meta?Advertiser Content FromThis is the title for the native ad
