Meta’s newly launched Muse AI assistant is heading to Canada “very soon” as the company looks beyond its initial U.S. rollout.
This week, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang confirmed the expansion plans, indicating Canada is among the countries set to gain access to Muse following its U.S. debut on September 8. When asked when Canada will get Meta’s Muse on X (formerly Twitter), Wang simply responded, “Very soon!” There’s no firm Canadian launch date yet, making this more of an early confirmation than a firm release announcement.
Muse is Meta’s latest push into AI agents and is believed to be considerably more ambitious than a traditional chatbot. The assistant can browse the web, connect with other apps and continue working on tasks in the background. That includes sending emails, managing calendars, booking travel, shopping and making purchases on a user’s behalf.
Muse can connect with services including Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Spotify and financial platform Plaid. Meta also has an obvious advantage with its own services, offering integrations with Instagram, Messenger, Threads and Facebook that competing assistants can’t necessarily replicate. Users decide which services Muse can access and whether it receives read-only or read-and-write permissions. Meta says users can also revoke those connections at any time.
The assistant runs inside an isolated virtual machine, with Meta positioning security and privacy as central to the product. That’s particularly important considering just how much personal information users can potentially hand over to an autonomous assistant. Muse runs on Meta’s Muse family of AI models, starting with Muse Spark, which Meta unveiled earlier this year.
The U.S. launch currently includes a free option alongside paid tiers costing $20 USD and $100 USD per month for heavier usage. Without a full Canadian release plan, Meta hasn’t detailed how it will price those subscriptions in Canada. For now, Canadian availability remains one of the next launch targets. This suggests Meta plans to turn Muse from a U.S.-exclusive experiment into a much broader consumer AI platform.
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