{"id":414163,"date":"2026-05-06T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/414163\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:15:14","slug":"meta-develops-easy-to-use-ai-agent-for-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/414163\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Develops Easy-to-Use AI Agent for Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta<\/a> plans to build an agentic artificial intelligence assistant for consumers that is comparable to OpenClaw<\/a> but easier to use, The Financial Times (FT) reported<\/a> Tuesday (May 5), citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n

The assistant is being trialed internally by some staff, and Meta outlined its plan for the project at a companywide meeting last week, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Meta did not immediately reply to PYMNTS\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n

According to the FT report, Meta tried to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger<\/a> before he joined OpenAI<\/a>, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> said last week during an earnings call that there is an opportunity to develop a version of the OpenClaw experience that is more polished and easier to use.<\/p>\n

PYMNTS reported April 29 that during that day\u2019s Meta earnings call, Zuckerberg covered Meta\u2019s long-term vision for AI, framing personal superintelligence<\/a> as the company\u2019s chief product goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy view is that human progress has always been driven by people pursuing their individual aspirations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Also during the call, Zuckerberg said the company had seen a surge in business users employing its AI tools. The number of conversations being handled by these tools each week leapt from 1 million at the start of the year to 10 million by late March.<\/p>\n

In addition, Muse Spark, Meta\u2019s first model from the company\u2019s in-house AI lab, debuted during the first quarter and now powers Meta AI across all apps and the standalone Meta AI app. Sessions per user grew double digits following the introduction.<\/p>\n

Meta also upped its full-year guidance for capital expenditures from the earlier $115 billion to $135 billion to a new projection of $125 billion to $145 billion, citing the rising cost of memory and additional data center capacity and acknowledging that it has consistently underestimate its compute needs.<\/p>\n

On Friday (May 1), it was announced that Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup developing AI models<\/a> for general-purpose, humanoid robots.<\/p>\n

In February 2025, it was reported that Meta planned to develop AI-powered<\/a> humanoid robots, including hardware, AI, sensors and software, with a focus on robots that can perform household chores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta plans to build an agentic artificial intelligence assistant for consumers that is comparable to OpenClaw but easier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,51071,363,364,111,43,139,69,149464,739,145,741],"class_list":["post-414163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-assistant","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-openclaw","tag-pymnts-news","tag-technology","tag-whats-hot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}