Pay‑to‑Use Muse AI Lets Users Call U.S. Businesses Directly

Meta's Muse AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses for anyone who pays for the service, TechCrunch reported.

How does Muse enable paid outbound calls?

Muse lets subscribers ask the AI to dial a business on their behalf, handling tasks like contacting a cable provider, the DMV or a restaurant without online reservations, according to notes from Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, cited by TechCrunch.

What are the costs for using Muse’s calling feature?

Subscription plans begin at $20 per month for 500 million Muse tokens each week, while a higher tier costs $100 per month for 3 billion tokens, TechCrunch said.

Which other AI agents can place calls to businesses?

The startup Instinct and Google’s Gemini have also offered similar outbound‑calling capabilities, TechCrunch noted, though many receptionists still hang up when they detect a non‑human voice.

Muse’s user base exceeds 10 million people, Meta announced last month, TechCrunch added. The calling function remains a paid‑only feature for now, but an email‑address option is slated to roll out to free users soon, Wang told TechCrunch.