Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused

Meta is pushing its Muse AI beyond chat windows and into whatever hardware people are willing to hack together. On Friday, the company launched Muse Gadgets, an open-source project meant to help developers build devices that connect to Muse, its personal AI agent that can book travel, fill out forms, and shop on a user’s behalf.

The package includes open-source firmware, a Linux SDK, and a few starter ideas. Meta suggests things like a Muse-powered color e-ink display or a stick that plugs into a TV’s HDMI port. The company is also leaving the door wide open for more improvised builds, pointing users toward low-cost hobbyist computers like a Raspberry Pi or an off-the-shelf ESP32 board and telling them to hook Muse up to displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else is on the workbench.

There’s also a Discord channel for support, which is probably the most honest part of the whole thing: this is aimed at tinkerers, not average buyers. Meta has already built one example itself. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, said the company made a USB-C gadget called Muse Home Link that lets Muse connect to a home network and talk to smart devices such as speakers and smart TVs.

Meta made 5,000 Home Links and is giving them away free to Muse subscribers while supplies last, Friedman said. He also said the device should be ready to ship in a few weeks. His post about it drew nearly 30,000 views in a few hours, which suggests the freebies may already be gone. That’s the broader story here: Meta doesn’t want Muse to stay a standalone chatbot. It wants it in homes, in tools for small businesses, and in whatever other product category can carry the load.

Earlier this week, Meta also launched Muse for Small Business, a free version with usage limits that connects to Shopify, Dropbox, and Slack. And it created Meta Enterprise Platform to sell more of its AI work to business and corporate customers. Muse Gadgets fits neatly into that push: less chatbot, more platform, and a lot more ways to be everywhere at once.