Meta put Hatch in front of employees outside its superintelligence lab last month, according to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider. The memo tells staff the agent has its own computer, which is how Meta separates it from an assistant that only answers questions, and it lists filling in forms, buying things, and running deep research as examples. Hatch plugs into email and calendar plus apps like Spotify, Instagram, and OpenTable, carries on working after the app closes, and asks before it does anything sensitive. Users name their own agent and set how it talks and what it pays attention to, and Meta claims it remembers more than rival products do. The manager who circulated the memo said his agent, Veda, found him a dog sitter, bought a Father’s Day gift, and fixed his sleep.
