Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer

Meta released its Muse AI assistant app for Mac, following its mobile and web launch earlier this month when the app rose to the top of the U.S. App Store charts. Muse can interact with files, messages, calendar, notes and mail inside their native applications, with access granted on an opt-in basis and approval required before sensitive actions, Meta says. The desktop launch comes amid intensifying competition among consumer-facing AI agents, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg writing on X that "The team is shipping fast.

Meta’s new AI assistant app, Muse, is now available https://x.com/alexandr wang/status/2100714048329580957 on Mac. On the Mac, Muse can interact with your files, messages, calendar, notes and mail, all within their native applications. The new app https://ai.meta.com/muse/download/ follows the launch of Muse on mobile and the web earlier this month, when it quickly rose to the top of the U.S. App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts charts. Just like on other platforms, you can control what Muse has access to on your Mac on an opt-in basis. In addition, the app will always ask for your approval before it performs sensitive actions, Meta says. The desktop app comes at a time of intensifying competition between consumer-facing AI agents, which many in the industry believe will be the future of computing. The movement is disrupting the app industry https://intentionalfutures.com/insights/when-ai-eats-apps , software-as-a-service businesses https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-disrupting-software-companiesbut-not-as-fast-as-many-feared-a380443a , and perhaps, eventually, even hardware, like the iPhone https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openais-first-hardware-device-is-reportedly-a-screenless-speaker-that-can-move/ . In addition to Muse, all the major players offer consumer-facing agentic AI. And other AI agents have found traction by letting people use AI agents via text messages. One of the first breakout hits in this space, Poke, exited to Cognition https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-cognition-bought-poke-ai-personality-is-becoming-a-competitive-advantage/ in July. Meanwhile, the newest AI assistant frequently brought up in tech circles these days, Instinct, is said to be raising more funds at a $10 billion valuation https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-agent-startup-instinct-talks-10-billion-valuation . For now, the question is who can capture the most consumer market share in this space, and quickly. That’s led Muse and Instinct to rush to launch new features at a rapid pace — both rolled out voice calling this week, https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/rival-ai-agents-instinct-and-metas-muse-both-add-the-ability-to-make-calls/ for instance. As Mark Zuckerberg noted on X https://x.com/finkd/status/2100713341555712149 when announcing the Mac app, “The team is shipping fast.”