Meta's Muse app adds custom-built "spaces"
Meta's Muse app now lets users describe an idea and have the assistant build a persistent custom mini-app, called a space, a move toward generative, user-defined software inside a consumer AI app.
Meta announced "spaces," a feature in its Muse app that builds a custom experience from a user's description. Examples include a holiday gift tracker, a daily word game or a planning board for a DIY project. Each space is saved inside Muse, and users can keep editing it through conversation by adding features, changing its look or changing how it works.
Users can also choose where spaces appear. They can pin them to the sidebar, move them into the main tabs, hide them or schedule when they show up. Meta's example is a weekday planner that gives way to weekend plans on Saturday.
Spaces can connect to other apps and update in the background, so new concert dates, price changes or savings progress appear without the user asking. Meta's suggested uses include:
- a shopping hub that pulls in Instagram saves and Marketplace listings and buyer messages
- a school dashboard that finds events in school emails and adds them to a calendar
- an order tracker for small businesses, with customer messages
- a client hub for freelancers
The company did not say which third-party apps can connect, or how permissions and data access work.
Spaces are available starting today everywhere Muse is available. Meta said it is looking at ways to let people share spaces with others. It is also rolling out specialized versions of its models to Muse, trained with learnings from Muse Wonder. The post did not describe those models or say how they perform.