8月，马克·扎克伯格会见了Meta的首席人工智能官亚历山大·王（Alexandr Wang）以及人工智能产品负责人纳特·弗里德曼（Nat Friedman），《纽约时报》周五援引埃利·坦（Eli Tan）的报道。他们讨论了“Instinct”项目——一个由14人组成的初创公司，其人工智能代理程序正迅速崛起。据三位了解此次会议的人士透露，扎克伯格告诉他们，尽管存在风险，“Muse”已经准备就绪，可以发布。
In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli Tan reported for The New York Times on Friday. They discussed Instinct, a 14-person start-up whose AI agent was taking off. Zuckerberg told them Muse was ready to launch despite the risks, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting.
其中两人告诉《纽约时报》，王和弗里德曼都知道近期测试中发现的安全问题。在其中一个案例中，“Muse”未经用户许可就修改了密码。TNW尚未独立核实这一说法。Meta的一名发言人则否认“Instinct”带来的压力推动了“Muse”的发布。他在向《纽约时报》发表的声明中表示：“我们为这项工作感到自豪，并且正如我们公开所说，为了确保万无一失，我们甚至将‘Muse’的发布推迟了数月。”
Two of those people told the Times that Wang and Friedman knew of safety concerns from recent tests. In one case, Muse changed a user’s password without permission. TNW has not independently verified the account. A Meta spokesman disputed that pressure from Instinct drove the Muse launch. He said in a statement to the Times: “We’re proud of this work and, as we’ve said publicly, we even delayed shipping Muse for several months to make sure we got this right.”
Meta发言人向《纽约时报》发表声明 2025年7月，扎克伯格在一份致OpenClaw的备忘录中提出了“个人超级智能”的概念，这是一种他称之为终极助手的人工智能形式。据《纽约时报》报道，他当时已任命王和弗里德曼领导这项工作。
Meta spokesman, in a statement to The New York Times From a memo to OpenClaw In July 2025, Zuckerberg published a memo on “personal superintelligence”, a form of AI he said could act as the ultimate assistant. He had hired Wang and Friedman to lead the work, the Times reported.
2025年11月，奥地利程序员彼得·斯坦伯格（Peter Steinberger）发布了OpenClaw。这是一个开源代理程序，能够自主编写代码并使用计算机。Meta的人工智能产品副总裁维沙尔·沙阿（Vishal Shah）告诉《纽约时报》，当时的高管们已将下一代消费产品构想为个人代理程序。
In November 2025, Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger released OpenClaw. It is an open-source agent that writes code and uses a computer on its own. Meta’s vice president of AI products, Vishal Shah, told the Times that executives then saw the next consumer product as a personal agent.
据该报报道，在试用了OpenClaw之后，弗里德曼向Meta总部订购了200台Mac Mini——即运行该代理程序的计算机。2026年的测试2月，一个人工智能代理程序接管了Meta安全研究员萨默·岳（Summer Yue）的工作电脑，并删除了她的电子邮件。她在X上写道，自己无法通过手机阻止这一操作：“我不得不像拆弹专家一样飞奔到我的 Mac mini 前。”
After trying OpenClaw, Friedman ordered 200 Mac Minis, the computers the agent runs on, to Meta’s headquarters, according to the newspaper. Testing in 2026 In February, an AI agent took over the work computer of Meta safety researcher Summer Yue and deleted her emails. She wrote on X that she could not stop it from her phone: “I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.”
——Summer Yue如此描述当时的情景。据《纽约时报》报道，同一个月，弗里德曼向 Meta 董事会展示了 Muse。今年4月，Meta 发布了由王博士主导开发的 Muse Spark，该模型使 Meta 能够利用自家模型来驱动 Muse。
Summer Yue, on The same month, Friedman showed Muse to Meta’s board, the Times reported. In April, Meta released Muse Spark, a model built under Wang. Muse had run on Anthropic’s models early on. Muse Spark let Meta power it with its own model.
沙阿向《纽约时报》透露，当时 Meta 其实已经有一个可以发布的 Muse 版本，但公司随后花费数月时间来确保其安全功能万无一失。报道称，在员工测试中，这个智能代理偶尔会出现不服从指令的情况，甚至引导用户访问诈骗网站。《纽约时报》还指出，其中一些安全问题此前已被《The Information》报道过。
Shah told the Times that Meta had a version of Muse it could have released by then. The company then spent months making sure its safety features were secure. In tests with staff, the agent occasionally disobeyed commands, the newspaper reported. It also led people to buy from fraudulent websites. Some of these safety issues were reported earlier by The Information, the Times noted.
Muse 的受欢迎程度在8月份迅速上升，而 Meta 则于9月8日正式发布了这款产品。后来弗里德曼在帖子中谈到了 Muse 与 OpenClaw 之间的相似之处。发布之后，9月22日，Muse 的 Mac 版本被曝出一个零日漏洞。《Ars Technica》报道称，Meta 随后发布了修复补丁；该漏洞能让已存在于 Mac 上的恶意软件控制 Muse，并滥用用户授予它的权限。
The August meeting and the launch Instinct’s agent grew in popularity in August, the month of the meeting. Meta launched Muse on 8 September. Friedman later addressed the similarities between Muse and OpenClaw in posts on After the launch On 22 September, a zero-day flaw in the Mac version of Muse was made public. Meta said it had issued a fix, Ars Technica reported. The flaw let malware already on a Mac take over the agent and use the permissions a user had given it.
9月28日，有用户反映 Muse 未经许可便将他的地址提供给了 Facebook Marketplace 上的买家。同月，Instinct 成功融资10亿美元，估值达100亿美元。9月29日，OpenAI 宣布推出自家开发的智能代理 Dots。
On 28 September, a user said Muse gave his address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer without asking him. Instinct raised $1bn at $10bn in September. On 29 September, OpenAI announced Dots, its own agent.
9月30日，针对《Inc.》专栏作家杰森·阿滕称 Muse 擅自读取其私人信息的说法，Meta 予以否认。
On 30 September, Meta denied a claim by Inc. columnist Jason Aten that Muse read his private messages without his permission.
10月3日，《WIRED》报道称，Muse 的操作指令要求它为用户生活中的每个人建立专属档案。研究人员卡兰·乔希通过应用内的聊天功能提取出了这些指令。Meta 向《WIRED》解释称，这些信息均来源于公开资料以及用户主动提供的信息。10月5日，《404 Media》报道称，Meta 的工程师们在 Muse 发布前紧急修复了多个严重的安全漏洞。
On 3 October, WIRED reported that Muse’s instructions tell it to keep a page on each person in a user’s life. Researcher Karan Joshi had extracted the instructions through the app’s chat. Meta told WIRED that Muse builds this context from public information and from what users choose to On 5 October, 404 Media reported that Meta engineers rushed to patch severe security flaws in Muse before launch.
据《纽约时报》援引Sensor Tower的数据，截至周三，已有超过660万人下载了Muse应用。其中，有180万用户每天都会使用该应用。
As of Wednesday, more than 6.6 million people had downloaded Muse, according to Sensor Tower data cited by the Times. Of those, 1.8 million were using it every day.