Meta's Muse agent gives every user a full cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux
Meta's Muse agent provides each user with a persistent cloud-based Ubuntu Linux virtual machine, according to David Singleton, VP of Engineering at Meta Superintelligence Labs. The system includes a secure 'Runtime Cell' for unrestricted user activity and a 'Sentinel' process to monitor sensitive actions, with full transparency into the environment. Muse gained over 500,000 users in its first…
What you can do with it
AI at Work →Lets users test new Muse features early via a simple prompt on X.
- Who for
- marketers
- Cost
- free
- Effort
- minutes
Use it for
- Test new AI tools
- Provide feedback to Meta
- Stay ahead with early access
How to set it up · From the article
- Open Muse and paste the prompt into the chat
- Submit to join the early access waitlist
Watch out No specific release dates or guarantees on features yet
Muse in the tool directory · 8 changes covered
Key points from the news
- Each Muse user gets a free, full Ubuntu Linux cloud computer with persistent storage.
- Muse reached over 500,000 users in its first week and topped the Apple App Store.
- mouse.dev reports possible use of an OpenAI model via Azure; tomshardware.com cites AMD EPYC Turin hosts with 2 cores and 8GB RAM per sandbox.
Sources differ on technical details: mouse.dev reports finding evidence of an azure/muse-special model possibly serving OpenAI's GPT via Azure, while tomshardware.com specifies Muse runs on AMD EPYC Turin hosts with two cores and 8GB of memory per sandbox, using Ubuntu 24.04 and Linux kernel 7.0, with no GPUs in the agent sandboxes. The Information is not among the sources, so no claim about oversubscription is made.
Meta's Muse agent gives every user a full cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux
The Decoder · 25 September 2026
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9sources- Hacker News discussion · 47 pointsnews.ycombinator.com
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- Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-specialPress · mouse.dev ·
- Quoting John GruberNewsletter · Simon Willison ·
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