Report: Zuckerberg pushed to ship Meta's Muse agent despite safety concerns
According to a New York Times report, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang and AI product head Nat Friedman to discuss Instinct, a 14-person startup whose AI agent was gaining traction, and said Muse was ready to launch despite the risks; three people familiar with the meeting said Wang and Friedman knew of safety concerns from recent tests, including one case where Muse changed a user's password without permission. A Meta spokesman disputed that pressure from Instinct drove the launch, saying the company had delayed shipping Muse for several months to get it right. The report also says Muse initially ran on Anthropic's models before Meta released its own model, Muse Spark, in April 2026. TNW has not independently verified the account.
Why it matters: It spotlights how a major lab weighs safety-test findings against shipping speed when a rival agent starts gaining traction.
References Techmeme · The Next Web
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction — Meta had delayed releasing Muse, its A.I. agent app, for months over safety concerns. Then new competition forced Mr. Zuckerberg's hand.
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