Meta AI adds planning and task execution features powered by Muse Spark 1.1

Meta is expanding Meta AI from a conversational assistant into a product designed to plan work and carry parts of it through. The company says the new experience is powered by Muse Spark 1.1 and can create plans, connect with email and calendar services, research a subject, generate slides and manage recurring tasks. The rollout begins in select markets in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai, with additional countries and surfaces expected later.

The announcement matters because it shifts the product’s center of gravity from producing an answer in a chat window to maintaining context across a sequence of actions. Meta describes examples such as preparing a renovation mood board, building an adaptable training schedule or organizing a dinner by checking a calendar and suggesting options. In each case, the company is presenting the assistant as something that can return to a task rather than wait for a new prompt every time.

Daily briefings are another part of the release. Meta AI can use connected calendar information to surface conflicts, changed plans and a summary at a chosen time, according to the company. Users can also set recurring requests, such as a weekly meal plan or a periodic update on a topic. The practical change is not simply more generated text; it is the introduction of scheduled, context-aware interactions that could become part of a user’s routine.

Meta is also positioning research and slide creation as connected capabilities. A user can ask the assistant to assemble a report from web and community information, then steer the result while it is in progress by changing the focus, tone or length. The company says completed reports, presentations, plans and mood boards are kept together so they can be revisited and shared, an attempt to make the assistant’s output feel more like durable work than a transient chat response.

The release still leaves important boundaries to watch. App connections and ongoing tasks place more value on clear permission controls, accurate context and predictable handling when a request cannot be completed. Meta says private conversations remain available through Incognito chats, while the new task-oriented features are beginning only in selected markets. The pace and geography of the rollout will determine how broadly the product can be evaluated outside the initial launch group.

For Meta, the larger significance is competitive positioning. Consumer AI assistants are increasingly judged not only by the quality of a single response but also by whether they can coordinate information, remember an objective and help complete a multi-step activity without becoming opaque. Meta’s update is an early test of whether those agent-like behaviors can fit naturally into a social and messaging ecosystem while leaving people in control of the work.