Hey. Hey, Mark. How's it going? How's it going? Just putting some finishing touches on over here. You ready to do this?
Yeah, man. We got a packed house out there. You better get on stage.
All right. I'll be out there in a minute. Let's go have some fun.
Okay. See you soon, brother. Yeah.
All right. Hey, welcome to Connect. What a wild time to be building. Delivering personal superintelligence is now within reach. Soon, everyone is going to have an extremely capable personal agent that understands your goals and can work twenty-four/seven on your behalf to help you achieve them, whether that's helping you improve your relationships, helping you be more present with your friends and family, saving you time, saving you money, helping you create things, helping advance your career. The technology now exists to make this all possible.
Now, it's no secret that, you know, people in the industry have a wide range of views about how the future is gonna go. But at Meta, we are optimists because we believe in people. We believe that the best way to create a positive future for everyone is to put power in people's hands. We believe that empowering people is the source of prosperity in the world, that the highest purpose of superintelligence is creation and invention, not automation, and that the path to a safe future is to distribute this technology widely and create the right checks and balances rather than concentrating it in the hands of just a few.
So, what does it look like when all of this works, when every person can do more of what we dream and spend more time with the people and on the things that really matter? It's the simple idea that when you empower people, our lives get better. Yet, this idea has become surprisingly controversial. I am more and more convinced that the reason why Meta exists, why we succeed, and why more people use our services than any others in the world is because we actually believe in people.
Building is an act of love. It's how we impart what we believe, and we pour our hearts and our souls into what we make. We struggle over the big details and the small ones. It's not always easy. Sometimes whole years are hard. But we build because this is who we are.
And the centerpiece of our vision for what we're building is Muse. This is the personal agent that we shipped a few weeks ago that it's already helping millions of people with all kinds of different things. And in the coming years, I expect that Muse is going to grow into the personal superintelligence that billions of people around the world are going to use to accomplish their goals and improve their lives.
Now, I am really proud of the work that Nat and the whole team who worked on this did. Nat is an absolute legend, for those of you who haven't gotten the chance to work with him. And the team that's worked on this is one of the most talented that I have ever seen. So, congratulations, and it's off to a great start.
The basic architecture gives every Muse its own private and secure computer. The Muse secure VM is extremely advanced and is ahead of anyone else in the industry. The Muse Spark model is trained specifically to excel as a personal agent. There are so many fun and novel parts of this experience, from the ability to set your goals, to having Muse share its own ideas for how it can help you, to having it research and generate its own custom feed for you, to that jolly and completely customizable character and personality. That little guy's name is Jolly, by the way.
Muse also has a novel business model. We believe that Muse will make you money, and we are standing behind this by making Muse free for a huge number of tokens with the expectation that over time, we will profit by taking a small fee from transactions.
Now, in the first few weeks, it has been really exciting and has brought us a lot of joy to see all of the ways that people are using Muse. So, in a moment, I'm going to hand it off to the one and only Alexandr Wang to share more about this. But first, let's look at a few examples of what's been happening.
Hey, everyone. It was only about six months ago that having a personal agent running on your own computer was the sign of someone who is completely AI-pilled and thinking nonstop about agents. But for that small group of nerds, which probably included many of the people in this room, it looked like the beginning of personal super intelligence. And today with Muse, we've brought that magic to everyone.
Personal agents need their own secure computer, so Meta built one for every person who uses Muse. The Muse secure VM is yours. It's free, it's safe and secure, and this is how you make personal agents for everyone.
The default Muse is this little guy. He's super cute, and you can also make your Muse totally yours. This product gets personal real fast, and people's imaginations are going wild customizing their own Muses.
Here's Euler, the super intelligent alter ego of my real-life dog. Now, Euler can go on walks, play fetch, and shop for me online using Stripe. And on the internet, nobody knows he's a dog.
One of my favorite things to do since we've launched Muse is seeing how people are using it. Every day, I see something new. Just before I came up today, I saw somebody who broke their mother-in-law's favorite china set, then had Muse scour the internet, eBay, vintage sellers in Japan, everybody to try to find an exact match. Found it, got it delivered, mother-in-law relationship saved.
One guy had Muse help plan a weekend away with his wife. A week later, Muse warned him that it would rain on the days that he booked, so Muse moved out the dates. Disaster avoided by Muse.
It saved a bunch of people money on car and home insurance. It hunted out refunds they didn't even know were owed. One person had to negotiate with her cable company through their online customer support chat, and it knocked eighty-five dollars a month off the bill. Muse has been saving real people real money.
Meta knows what it's like when a product is in the early days of crazy growth, and this one is, scientifically speaking, a banger. We just rolled it out in Canada, and more countries are coming soon, and it keeps getting better.
We launched the Muse Mac app last week. Give it access, and it works across your files, messages, calendar, notes, and more. It has state-of-the-art dictation built in natively.
And big news today, we're adding computer use. With your permission, Muse can now drive any app on your Mac. You can have it help you run your small business or just get work done for you. You can walk away from your computer, and it keeps working for you on all the jobs you've lined up.
A lot of people wanted their Muse to have its own email address it can use to get things done for you. That's something we're developing now, and it's also coming soon. You'll be able to add your Muse to an email thread or forward emails from Muse to handle on your behalf.
Connectors are a big reason why Muse is able to do so much for people. We launched with a whole bunch of partners, like Spotify, OpenTable, Plaid, and Ticketmaster. And one of the great promises of e-commerce since the earliest days of the industry has been that it can save you money and time. Personal agents are going to continue delivering on that promise for a new generation of shoppers, and they're going to help them discover products they love and get great deals, too.
This is a really big focus for us, so we're building a bunch of deep partnerships with companies like Stripe and Shopify to enable a frontier shopping experience. Muse can access the entire Shopify product catalog agentically and use Link and now Shop Pay to buy almost anything on the internet. And to help it be an even better shopper globally, we're adding more support for payments with PayPal.
We've been talking to some of the world's largest retailers about the opportunity here, and the response has been amazing. So I'm very excited to announce today that Walmart, Best Buy, Gap, Sephora, Wayfair, and many more are integrated with Muse to enable new shopping experiences for their users.
To help you plan your travel, we're adding a bunch of new connectors, including Expedia. And anyone who grocery shops online is going to love this one. Instacart is coming to Muse. And for getting work done, there's Box, GitHub, Granola, and Notion, and many more coming very soon.
People want Muse to easily connect like this to any app or any business, not just big brands. So last week, we started to open up the connector platform so developers can build connectors on their own. And in less than a week, we received over fifteen hundred applications with so many amazing names you all know and love. You can see some of them here. I think this could be a generational opportunity to start building for a new platform as it takes off, and the response so far has been really great.
None of this would be possible without the frontier AI models we're training at MSL. We built them from the ground up to power personal superintelligence and be great at helping billions of people with what actually matters to them. So throughout the model development cycle, we focus on things that will matter to people using Muse. We optimize for agentic behaviors, like remembering preferences and personalizing actions while maintaining continuity over time.
Our researchers did a ton of work teaching agents how to choose the right tool for a job and how to chain actions across multiple apps and services while having the discretion to check back in with the user at the right times. The result is that Muse Spark gets better at giving people what they need from their personal agent with every iteration.
And pretty soon, we're dropping the most capable model we've ever trained. It's going to help our entire model family get smarter and more useful for everyone, including the models that power Muse. You'll hear more on that soon. And with that, I'll pass it back to Mark.
