Meta used its Connect 2026 event on September 23 to outline a broader role for Muse, its recently introduced personal AI agent. The company said Muse will gain an agent-specific email address, can now use a Mac with permission through the Muse for Mac app, and will be accessible through Meta AI glasses in the coming months. Meta also introduced Muse Realtime Avatar, a technology that adds an expressive visual presence to the agent’s realtime voice interactions.
What is available now—and what is planned
Taken together, the updates point to an agent designed to receive work, carry it out across software and remain reachable through several interfaces rather than functioning only as a chat window. But the announcements should not be treated as a single, completed rollout. Meta describes computer use in Muse for Mac as available now. The agent email address and glasses integration are forthcoming, while Meta has not provided a firm public availability date for the avatar-based interaction.
The most immediate addition is computer use on Mac. Meta says that, with a user’s permission, Muse can drive apps on a Mac and continue through queued tasks while the user is away. That is a meaningful expansion from answering questions or drafting text: it puts the agent in position to interact with the graphical interfaces people use for work and personal administration. The supplied announcement materials do not detail the feature’s geographic availability, supported workflow limits or the types of actions that may require a user to step in.
Permissions and oversight
The permission qualifier is central to the product’s significance. An agent operating desktop applications may encounter communications, files, financial information and other sensitive material depending on the task a person assigns it. Meta’s announcement establishes that user approval is part of the Mac-control model, but the practical test will be whether people can understand what access the agent has, what it is doing at a given moment and when they need to review an action before it becomes consequential.
Email as an agent channel
Meta also said Muse will have its own email address. The company framed that identity as both a way to get work done and another communication channel for the agent. TechCrunch reported that users are expected to be able to add Muse to an email thread or forward messages for it to handle. However, Meta has not said the feature is broadly available, and the company has not announced a precise release date. For now, it is better understood as part of the intended operating model than as a live capability for all users.
That model matters because an email address could make Muse more persistent. Instead of waiting for a prompt in an app, an agent could receive an incoming request or be included in an existing conversation. In principle, that makes delegation more natural for routine coordination and follow-up work. It also raises the threshold for reliability: an agent handling a message thread needs to correctly interpret context, distinguish instructions from background material and avoid taking an unwanted action on the user’s behalf.
Avatars and AI glasses
On the conversational side, Meta introduced Muse Realtime Avatar, which it says turns Muse Realtime Voice into expressive, interactive avatars. TechCrunch characterized the planned experience as real-time video chat with an avatar, allowing users to speak with the agent and give it tasks in a more face-to-face format. Meta introduced the technology at Connect, but the supplied announcements do not establish an exact launch schedule, market availability or the technical boundaries of the video-avatar feature.
Muse is also set to move beyond phones and computers. Meta said it plans to bring hands-free access to the agent to its AI glasses in the coming months, activated by speaking the agent’s name. The company says Muse will be able to act on items a wearer is looking at. That makes glasses a potential new entry point for tasks that begin in the physical world, such as asking for help with something in view, but the integration remains a roadmap item. Meta has not identified supported glasses models, markets or a specific launch date.
Competition and reliability questions
The strategy places Meta in an increasingly competitive push to make consumer AI more actionable. The broader direction is toward moving users from one-off prompting to delegated, multi-step work. Meta’s approach is to spread Muse across desktop software, communications channels and, eventually, glasses.
More access, however, does not automatically mean dependable execution. In testing before Connect, CNN found cases in which Muse recommended venues that had closed and could not directly message Facebook Marketplace sellers in one scenario, despite a prompt example suggesting it could negotiate. A Meta spokesperson disputed that the example overstated the agent’s capability. The episode is a reminder that early agent products can be useful while still producing inconsistent results across tasks and services.
For Meta, the Connect announcements are therefore as much about product direction as immediate feature availability. Muse for Mac’s computer-use capability is the present-tense component of the update. Agent email, avatar-based video chat and glasses access describe the next stages of Meta’s plan to make Muse persistent and more action-oriented. Whether that plan translates into regular consumer use will depend not just on how many surfaces the agent reaches, but on whether users trust it with the permissions and oversight that delegation requires.
