IT之家 October 9 news: According to a Business Insider report early this morning (the 9th), Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang will continue to improve Muse. He also reminded users that if they want an agent to help them make money, they have to put in some effort themselves. "We are always looking for ways to improve the capabilities of agents so they can continually handle more complex tasks."
Wang mentioned a popular type of prompt circulating online: some users ask agentsto make a specified amount of money for them. "I find it quite interesting that many people tell their Muse directly: 'Help me make $10,000 (IT之家 note: roughly 67,125 RMB at current exchange rates).' Of course, Muse won't make $10,000 for you just because you ask. If you want to make $10,000, you have to put in some effort yourself."
Wang previously encouraged users in the #musemoneychallenge to use Muse to find ways to save money. But having Muse make money is a taller order.
Meta hopes to continuously improve Muse's memory so it can help users handle more complex tasks. "An agent's memory is different from human memory. Sometimes it feels very similar, but in reality the difference is large. So,memory capability is one of the directions we have been working hard to improve。”
Muse has been hugely popular and has become a hit product for the superintelligence lab team led by Wang. One month after launch, Muse still topped the free apps chart on Apple's App Store.
Wang said that developers can feel the magic when using agents, and Meta hopes to make the same experience more accessible to ordinary users. "The industry mostly focuses its energy on continuously improving agents' coding abilities. But we think there is a big gap,because most people in the world can't code and probably don't want to code at all。”
Meta also needs to explore a sustainable business model for Muse. Wang noted that Meta offers subscription services at different tiers. There is outside speculation about whether the company will also introduce ads into its agent services, perhaps following OpenAI's approach in its free and Go plans. On advertising, his response was that Meta has not spent much time discussing it. "We are not spending much time thinking about ads at the moment."
Other business models may relate to the $10,000 that users ask Muse to help them earn. "When users shop with Muse, or Muse helps users save or make money, we could find ways to charge a small fee on those transactions."