Meta just rolled out new specialized models trained on Muse Wonder to its Muse and Meta AI apps. The update brings Active Memory and Active Focus to all users, cutting critical info slip-ups by 2.4x and boosting everyday task completion and self-correction by 67%. Basically, you'll repeat yourself less and hit fewer dead ends.
Meta just rolled out a major update to its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses. The glasses now offer landmark-based walking directions—telling you to turn at recognizable spots like a yellow house instead of street names—along with cycling and transit routes. A new Hologram feature creates a photorealistic digital avatar driven entirely by your voice for WhatsApp calls, eliminating awkward angles while cooking or multitasking. The update also brings Dolby Atmos recording and expands to five new countries.
Meta just announced Meta VR Glasses, a 100-gram headset that moves compute and battery into a pocket puck to cut bulk. It features a 5K micro-OLED display, hands-free gesture control, integrated Meta AI, and photorealistic hologram calling for $1,299.99. The device is scheduled to launch in Spring 2027.
Meta just launched Meta One, a tiered subscription service starting at $2.99 a month across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Meta AI. The bundle unlocks heavy AI usage like Muse-powered video generation and 24/7 Meta Business Agents, while keeping the core apps free.
Meta just launched Muse Voice Transcribe, its first real-time audio perception model from the Muse Spark family. Processing audio in 80ms chunks, it uses reinforcement learning to dynamically balance latency and accuracy while tracking over 20 distinct speakers. It natively supports hour-plus audio and is already live across Meta AI, Muse Code, and the Meta Model API.
Meta AI just launched its official macOS desktop app, headlined by a system-wide voice dictation tool. Users can simply hold down the 'fn' key and start talking to transcribe text into any app with ultra-high accuracy, eliminating the need to switch windows for hands-free typing.
Meta just launched a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, pushing its assistant deeper into daily work. The new app lets you share specific windows so the AI can see what you are working on, answer questions, and generate content, alongside system-wide dictation across any application. It also hooks directly into Google Workspace and Meta's ad and social accounts to churn out performance reports, slides, and docs.
Meta just rolled out a software update for its Ray-Ban Display glasses in the US, adding hands-free Threads browsing and a Meta AI upgrade powered by its Muse Spark model. The update boosts visual understanding and brings neural handwriting via the Meta Neural Band for Early Access users in the US and Canada, letting people silently interact with AI by scribbling on any surface.
Meta just rolled out agentic features to Meta AI, powered by its new Muse Spark 1.1 model. Instead of just answering questions, the assistant can now plan and execute multi-step tasks across apps—from building marathon schedules to scouting Marketplace for home renovations. Users can steer generation in real time, though rollout is currently limited to select markets.
Meta just pulled the plug on a new Instagram AI feature that let users generate images referencing public accounts simply by @-mentioning them. Following immediate backlash from SAG-AFTRA and child safety advocates warning of likeness theft and sextortion, Meta admitted the tool missed the mark and shut it down completely.
Meta just rolled out Muse Spark 1.1, a major multimodal reasoning upgrade built specifically for agentic workflows and computer use. It packs a 1-million-token context window, orchestrates parallel subagents, and knows when to write scripts versus click through desktop UIs. Why it matters: Meta is packaging frontier agentic coding and browser control into a new developer API to challenge leading frontier labs.
Meta just rolled out Muse Image, its first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, natively inside Meta AI. The model lets users turn prompts into graphics, cleanly edit specific areas by circling them directly on the canvas, and redesign living spaces with real web products. It's free for everyday use, though an @-mention referencing feature was quietly scrapped following user backlash.
Meta just partnered with EssilorLuxottica to launch Meta Glasses, a sleek new $299 smart eyewear lineup. Powered on day one by Meta's new Muse Spark multimodal model, the glasses deliver hands-free photo and video capture, 8-hour battery life, and live translation across 14 languages. Meta is betting that high fashion is the fastest way to put ambient AI right in front of your eyes.
Meta just rolled out a suite of AI features on Facebook, led by an "AI Mode" search tab that pulls answers directly from public Groups and Reels instead of generic web links. The update also adds automated video collage templates and photo presets that let users virtually swap clothing and hairstyles on Stories and profile pictures.
Meta just launched Incognito Chat for Meta AI on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, delivering AI conversations that not even Meta can read. Built on WhatsApp's Private Processing, messages are handled in a secure environment and disappear by default without being logged. The feature is rolling out over coming months alongside an upcoming Side Chat tool.
Meta just launched its first prescription-optimized Ray-Ban AI glasses, debuting the Blayzer and Scriber frames starting at $499. The hardware arrives with fresh AI software upgrades, including hands-free nutrition tracking via camera and on-device WhatsApp chat summaries. It finally solves the everyday comfort gap for billions who rely on corrective lenses.
Instagram is rolling out a new "AI Transition" tool for Stories that uses AI morphing to stitch multiple still photos into a seamless video clip. Users just pick two or more images, let Meta AI generate the sequence, and can even save it to repost on Reels. It requires accepting Meta AI terms and is currently rolling out to select accounts.
Meta just partnered with News Corp, Le Figaro, Prisa, and Süddeutsche Zeitung to deliver real-time international news and lifestyle stories directly inside Meta AI. When users ask news-related questions, the assistant will now cite these sources and link back to their websites. Why it matters: Meta gets more reliable, timely information while publishers get a direct pipeline for traffic.
Meta just rolled out a suite of Meta AI tools for Facebook Marketplace to speed up decluttering. Sellers can now snap photos to have AI auto-generate item descriptions and suggest local market prices, alongside AI-drafted replies to common buyer questions. It also creates profile summaries to build buyer trust, turning secondhand selling into a mostly automated chore.
Meta is facing a U.S. class-action lawsuit alleging that overseas contractors reviewed sensitive footage captured by Ray-Ban AI smart glasses, including intimate moments. The lawsuit targets Meta's "built for privacy" marketing, pointing out users cannot opt out of the data review pipeline. Meta maintains it only reviews media that users explicitly share with Meta AI.
