Meta's Muse agent gets its own VM and browser

Meta released Muse on September 8, a personal AI agent that runs inside its own secure virtual machine for every user. It's available now through a standalone app or through WhatsApp, to US users 18 and older.

Anyone running a self-built agent sandbox has had to provision that isolation themselves. Meta just put a $20-a-month price on it for consumers.

The infrastructure choice is what stands out. Each person gets a Muse Secure VM, a dedicated machine with its own browser, so the agent can act across the apps someone already uses. That's the shape independent agent-harness builders have been wiring together by hand for the past year. Give the agent a real browser in an isolated box, and it can click, type, and navigate like a person would. Meta made that the default architecture for a mainstream product instead of a setup only a developer would attempt.

Pricing splits three ways. A free tier is reported at up to 100 million tokens a week, Power runs $20 a month, and Maximum is $100 a month. That's a consumer price tag on per-user VM compute most people would otherwise have to run themselves.

On privacy, Meta says Muse conversations and VM data don't feed its ad systems. It's also promising a Muse Confidential VM later in 2026, encrypted with a key only the user holds, one Meta can't open. Meta's announcement doesn't say what month that confidential tier ships, or what happens to VM data before then beyond the current ad-system carve-out.