
Investors and analysts react positively to Meta's new AI system
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Meta has introduced the AI assistant system “Muse” to make AI agents accessible to end users.
Dusseldorf. Share price increase of eleven percent: Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg was able to convince investors and analysts with his newly introduced assistant system “Muse”. Since the beginning of the week, Meta's shares on the stock market have increased by more than eleven percent.
The usually sober analyst Brent Thill from the US investment bank Jefferies called Muse a “killer app” and wrote: “Muse is an absolute top product.” The launch marks a turning point in bringing AI agents to the masses of end users.

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