Meta adds Spaces to organize ongoing projects with its Muse AI agent

Meta has launched Spaces, giving its Muse AI agent dedicated places to work on ongoing projects. The visible change is a sidebar of topic-focused conversations; the bigger promise is automation. Meta says Muse can build planners and trackers from a chat request, then keep them current using information from connected apps.

A separate place for each project

Spaces sit in the sidebar of the interface used to interact with Muse. Opening one brings up a conversation organized around a particular topic or goal. A vacation, for example, can have its own Space that the user returns to whenever they want to continue planning with the agent.

Meta calls these “custom experiences.” Its description goes beyond separating conversations: users describe what they need in chat, and Muse builds a tracker, planner or project board. The request is the starting point for creating the Space, rather than a requirement to choose one fixed format.

Connect the apps you use, and your spaces keep themselves up to date in the background, so new concert dates, price changes, or savings progress show up without you having to ask,

Meta, quoted by TechCrunch

Connected apps supply the updates

The background-update capability is Meta’s claim about how Spaces work with third-party apps and information. It describes a project view that can change as outside information changes, without a fresh prompt for every update. That is a different function from simply reopening a conversation to pick up where it stopped.

Meta’s suggested uses range from gathering material for an event to keeping a longer-running project organized:

• Collect recipes for an upcoming family event.
• Track holiday gifts or organize wedding plans.
• Create a dedicated Space for a do-it-yourself project.

Mark Zuckerberg offered a wider set of examples in a November 6 post on X, quoted by TechCrunch. Meta’s CEO said he had made a BBQ game, an event tracker and a home-control dashboard. Those are his accounts of what he built, rather than independent tests of the feature.

Spaces arrives with an existing audience for Muse. During Meta’s October earnings call, Zuckerberg said the agents had reached 10 million users in the U.S. and Canada, less than two months after their debut. That figure describes Muse’s audience, not adoption of the newly launched Spaces feature.