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Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused
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Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused. On Friday, the company introduced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that enables developers to build hardware capable of connecting with Muse, the personal AI agent that can book travel, complete forms and shop on a user’s behalf. The initiative is aimed particularly at hobbyists, tinkerers and hackers looking to move beyond Meta’s own devices. It could strengthen Meta’s effort to make Muse an embedded layer across consumer technology rather than simply a standalone chatbot.
Meta is providing open-source firmware, the low-level software that runs a device, and a Linux software development kit. It also offered starter concepts, including adding Muse to a color e-ink display or loading it onto a stick that connects to a television through HDMI. Developers can use inexpensive hardware such as Raspberry Pi computers or ESP32 boards and link Muse with displays, buttons, sensors, actuators and other components.
Meta has established a Discord channel to support the project and has already tested its software by building the USB-C-powered Muse Home Link. According to Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, the device lets Muse join a home network and communicate with connected speakers, smart televisions and other smart devices. Meta produced 5,000 Home Links and is giving them away to Muse subscribers while supplies last. Friedman said on X that the device would begin shipping in a few weeks; his announcement had nearly 30,000 views within hours.
The project illustrates Meta’s broader plan to extend Muse into business and enterprise settings. Earlier in the week, the company launched Muse for Small Business, a free version with usage limits that connects to services including Shopify, Dropbox and Slack. Meta also created a new business unit, Meta Enterprise Platform, to promote its artificial-intelligence products to business and corporate customers. Although Muse Gadgets may not have mass-market appeal, it could give Meta a larger ecosystem of compatible hardware.
