Meta Opens Muse to Hardware Hackers With Muse Gadgets

Meta wants developers to put its personal AI agent Muse into hardware of their own making. On Friday, the company introduced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets tinkerers build custom devices that connect to Muse, the agent that books travel, fills out forms, and shops on a user's behalf.

The release matters because it signals how far Meta will push Muse beyond a standalone chatbot. The company is not content to court everyday consumers; it is building an ecosystem play that spans hobbyist hardware, small businesses, and enterprises.

Meta is providing open-source firmware — the low-level software that runs a device — and a Linux software development kit. It also supplies project ideas to get users started. These include giving Muse a color e-ink display or loading the agent onto a stick that plugs into a TV's HDMI port.

The scope appears deliberately broad. Users can set up a low-cost hobbyist computer like a Raspberry Pi or an off-the-shelf ESP32 board, then connect Muse "to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else you've got lying on your workbench," Meta notes. A Discord channel will support users building projects.

Meta has already dogfooded the code. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, said in a post on X that the company built a gadget called Muse Home Link. The USB-C-powered device lets Muse connect to a home network and talk to the smart devices on it, including speakers and smart TVs.

Meta manufactured 5,000 Home Links and is giving them away for free to Muse subscribers while supplies last, according to Friedman. Demand looks strong: Friedman's post about Home Link drew nearly 30,000 views within a few hours. Friedman said Home Link would be ready to ship in a few weeks.

Muse Gadgets may not have wide appeal on its own. But it fits neatly into Meta's all-in strategy to make Muse an agent that lives across surfaces rather than inside a single app.

The business push is already underway. Earlier this week, Meta introduced Muse for Small Business, which is free with usage limits and connects Muse to tools such as Shopify, Dropbox, and Slack. The company has also launched a new business unit, the Meta Enterprise Platform, to sell its AI offerings to businesses and corporate customers.

Together, the moves show a company attacking the AI market from three fronts at once: consumer agents, developer hardware, and enterprise sales. If Muse Gadgets takes off with the maker community, Meta will have a bottom-up hardware channel that rivals building similar agents — largely still confined to phones and browsers — currently lack.