{"id":28778,"date":"2026-05-06T00:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:18:27","slug":"meta-plans-advanced-agentic-ai-assistant-for-users-ft-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28778\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta plans advanced &#8216;agentic&#8217; AI assistant for users, FT reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">May 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Meta is building a highly personalized <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> assistant to carry out everyday tasks \u200cfor its billions of users, the Financial Times \u200creported on Tuesday, as the company faces investor scrutiny over its escalating AI \u200bspending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The social media giant is developing agentic tools, including an advanced digital assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model, the FT said, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u200cassistant is being \u2060tested internally by a group of staff and the goal was to develop a product similar \u2060to OpenClaw, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">OpenClaw, which is owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OpenAI&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>, can connect several hardware and software tools and learn \u200bfrom the \u200bdata produced with much \u200bless human intervention than a \u200cchatbot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Separately, The Information reported that Meta is training an internal AI agent codenamed &#8220;Hatch,&#8221; inspired by OpenClaw, with the goal of completing internal testing by the end of June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Meta plans to integrate the separate agentic shopping tool into its Instagram \u200cservice and is targeting a \u200blaunch before the fourth quarter of \u200bthis year, according to \u200bThe Information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Meta did not immediately respond to \u200ca Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Facebook \u200band Instagram \u200bparent raised its annual capital spending forecast late last month, signaling plans to pour billions more into AI \u200binfrastructure even as \u200cit confronts potential losses from a global youth backlash \u200bagainst social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico \u200bCity; Editing by Tasim Zahid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Meta is building a highly personalized artificial intelligence assistant to carry out everyday tasks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18915,179,7493,1122],"class_list":{"0":"post-28778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agentic-ai","8":"tag-advanced-digital-assistant","9":"tag-agentic-ai","10":"tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-meta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}