A weekly planner that gives way to weekend plans, a dashboard for tracking orders for a small business, or a movie trivia game: Spaces turns prompts into experiences within Muse. Meta introduced the feature on November 6, allowing users to create each space by describing what they want, then change its appearance or functionality with new prompts.
The idea is not to open another standalone app. Each space lives inside Muse, Meta’s AI assistant, and can be organized in the sidebar or main tabs. The company also lets users hide spaces they don’t need and schedule when they appear. For example, Meta suggests showing the weekly planner on weekdays and replacing it with weekend plans on Saturday.
From an idea to a space inside Muse
Meta describes Spaces as personalized experiences built around each user’s routines, goals, and interests. All it takes is explaining the idea to the assistant: it could be a tracking list, a planning board, or a project tool. The first result doesn’t have to be final. Users can then ask for missing elements to be added, try a different design, or change how it works.
The company lists both practical and recreational uses. A shopping hub could bring together birthday and holiday gift ideas, wish lists saved on Instagram, and Marketplace listings, along with messages from buyers. To organize school matters, a dashboard could find events related to children in emails and add them to the calendar. Other examples from Meta include tracking artists and concerts, a wedding planner with RSVPs, vendor invoices, and tasks, and a trivia game about movies, music, or sports teams.
The list continues with a space for saving episode ideas, documentation, and podcast scripts; an order tracker for a small business, with customer messages and pending shipments; a dashboard for freelance projects, deadlines, and invoices; and a travel planner that brings together flights, hotels, reservations, and day-by-day itineraries. The common idea is to keep information and tasks related to a specific goal in one place.
TechCrunch compares the experience to conversations separated by topic: users open the space related to a project and work there with Muse. Its examples include planning a vacation or collecting recipes for a family gathering. Meta, by contrast, presents Spaces as personalized experiences, not simply conversation threads. In either case, the space lets users return to the same subject without starting from scratch each time.
Connections that keep information up to date
Spaces can connect to the apps each person uses. Meta says that once connected, they can update in the background to reflect changes, such as new concert dates, price changes, or progress toward a savings goal. Users can also mark items as complete, add notes, and edit information within a space; the changes remain available when they return later.
The Verge names Gmail, Google Calendar, OpenTable, and Notion among the external services Muse works with. Meta’s examples aren’t limited to one type of connection: a gift list could combine items saved on Instagram with Marketplace listings and messages, while a school dashboard could use email content and add events to the calendar. The usefulness of each space will therefore depend on the data users connect and the task they ask it to build.
Personalization also affects when and where each space appears. It can stay in the sidebar, move to the main tabs, be temporarily hidden, or be scheduled. This is more than a way to group projects: the organization lets users change what’s in view depending on the moment, such as a work planner during the week and Saturday activities.
Meta adds changes to its Muse models
The Spaces announcement comes alongside the rollout of specialized versions of Meta’s models for Muse. The company says they’re trained using insights from Muse Wonder and are intended to improve the overall experience. The Verge identifies two capabilities associated with Wonder: Active Memory, for recognizing when previous information is relevant to a conversation, and Active Focus, for working more effectively toward goals.
Digital Trends describes the new models as a way to remember relevant context and recover when a task runs into trouble, although the publication provides no performance figures. Meta didn’t detail how much the models change the experience or how the improvement is measured in its announcement. It did say that Spaces was available that day everywhere Muse is available.
Muse agents are a recent initiative at Meta. TechCrunch reported that during October’s earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said the agents had 10 million users in the United States and Canada, less than two months after their launch. The publication also noted that Spaces was the second new Muse feature announced that week: the previous Thursday, Meta had introduced Muse Voice, which lets users talk to the agent over video and give it commands verbally.
“Playing around with spaces in Muse lately — tell Muse what you need and it builds it. I’ve made a BBQ game, an event tracker, and a home control dashboard. Excited to see what you build.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta
Zuckerberg described some of his own spaces this way on X: a barbecue game, an event tracker, and a home control dashboard. His message focuses on creating something from a prompt, while Meta’s official examples also show spaces connected to everyday information and tasks.
Sharing spaces is still being explored
For now, the company presents spaces as personal by default. Meta is exploring ways to let users share them and collaborate with others, but it hasn’t announced an available collaboration feature or explained how it would work. It also hasn’t said when it might arrive.
TechCrunch places Spaces within the expansion of its agents’ capabilities and mentions competition from assistants with animated characters, including OpenAI’s dots and SpaceXAI’s Grokbot. Digital Trends, meanwhile, frames it among tools that let users create AI-powered mini-apps, although Meta avoids calling what it builds apps or mini-apps: the company’s name for these experiences is Spaces.
The feature is already available wherever Muse is offered. Meta has said the next step is to explore how to bring these personal spaces into shared use; for now, the company hasn’t given a date for that possibility.
Sources: Meta Newsroom, The Verge, TechCrunch, Digital Trends
