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Meta's Muse personal AI agent topped the Apple App Store, surpassing ChatGPT, by autonomously handling tasks like booking travel and emails.
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The app is powered by Meta's Muse Spark family of AI models and is a major push by CEO Mark Zuckerberg into the AI agent market. Meta's Muse AI personal agent tool has only been out for nearly two weeks, and it's topping the app store charts.
Shopify and Meta announced a partnership allowing consumers to complete purchases through Meta's Muse AI agent, with transactions powered by Shop Pay across Shopify merchant stores. The deal positions Shopify merchants to participate in the emerging wave of agent-driven commerce.
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
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PayPal (PYPL) stock jumped up to 5% Tuesday after partnering with Meta to enable Muse AI agent shopping and checkout on its platform.