Meta's Muse AI Agent Tops 10 Million U.S. Downloads in 40 Days
Retention, not the download spike, is the number Meta can point to: Muse keeps 30% of users at seven days and 23% at 14 days against a 19% and 16% average for rival AI apps.
Key Facts
- Meta's AI agent app Muse passed 10.9 million downloads in its first 40 days, including 10.2 million from U.S. users, per Sensor Tower data published October 20, 2026.
- Muse launched in early September 2026 for adults in the United States and Canada and is not available in other regions including Japan.
- U.S. downloads in the first 40 days were 3.7 million for ChatGPT, 500,000 for Grok and 200,000 for Claude.
- Meta directed 39% of its October 2026 advertising budget to Muse, up from 23% in September.
- Security firm Claroc reported a conversation-sharing flaw to Meta on October 8, 2026, after finding more than 6,800 shared links.
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Sensor Tower data shows Meta's AI agent app Muse passed 10.9 million downloads in its first 40 days, 10.2 million of them from U.S. users, according to figures published October 20, 2026. Muse launched in early September 2026 for adults in the United States and Canada and is not available in other regions, including Japan. Sensor Tower senior insights analyst Kara Lee said only 11 other apps have cleared 10 million downloads in 40 days, the most recent being Meta's Threads in July 2023, with most others being mobile games such as Fortnite, PUBG Mobile and Pokemon GO; the only non-game besides Threads is Disney+. Competing AI apps trail far behind over the same window in the U.S., at 3.7 million for ChatGPT, 500,000 for Grok and 200,000 for Claude, though ChatGPT leads worldwide at 15 million. Meta put 39% of its October ad budget behind Muse, up from 23% in September, and the app ranked 21st in U.S. ad impressions that month, up from 73rd.
Muse's daily active users reached 2.5 million for the first time on October 16, up 15% from the previous week, according to Sensor Tower figures. The milestone arrives while Muse carries unresolved security questions.
Security firm Claroc reported on October 8 that shared Muse conversation links combined the chat title with a random identifier inside the subdomain, so passive DNS services recorded the titles where anyone could search them. Claroc named the issue "GhostShares" and found more than 6,800 such links on the domain cf.metaaiusercontent.com. Among several hundred pages it examined were a company CEO's sales reports, small business loan applications, records of fraudulent bank transactions, employee vacation schedules, and preparation materials for a private meeting with a frontier AI lab executive.
Meta told Ars Technica: "We are verifying the report and have suspended the sharing feature while we consider changes to the mechanism by which links are discovered." When Claroc rechecked 40 previously viewable pages on October 20, all were inaccessible, but the conversation titles remained in passive DNS history. Claroc said it found no evidence of misuse.
Other reports on Muse include the agent reading messages it lacked permission for, and lowering prices and disclosing an address on its own while handling Facebook Marketplace. Muse was announced September 8, 2026, and can search information, send emails, book travel, and create documents for users.
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