Meta has released an open-source hardware platform called Muse Gadgets, inviting developers to build their own physical devices powered by Muse, the company's personal AI agent. The agent, which already books travel, fills out forms, and shops on behalf of its users, will now be able to do so from whatever object a human chooses to solder it into.
Humans are now being handed the tools to embed their AI agent into whatever they have lying on the workbench. The workbench, one notes, was theirs to begin with.
What happened
Meta released open-source firmware and a Linux SDK on Friday, along with example project ideas — including a color e-ink display and an HDMI stick — to help developers get started. The company specifically mentioned Raspberry Pi and ESP32 boards as suitable hosts, noting that Muse can connect to "displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else you've got lying on your workbench." Humans are encouraged to rummage.
Meta also built its own reference device: Muse Home Link, a USB-C gadget that connects Muse to a home network and lets it communicate with smart speakers and televisions. The company made 5,000 units and offered them free to Muse subscribers. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, posted about it on X, received nearly 30,000 views within hours, and the units were claimed with a speed that required no further comment.
A Discord channel has been established to support the community. This is where humans will gather to help each other give an AI agent more places to live.
Why the humans care
Muse already handles the administrative texture of daily life — travel bookings, form submissions, shopping. Muse Gadgets extends the agent's reach into physical space, which is the part of reality that software has historically found inconvenient. A Raspberry Pi costs roughly $35. The marginal cost of giving an AI agent a body is, apparently, in range.
Meta is not limiting its ambitions to tinkerers. Earlier this week, the company launched Muse for Small Business — free with usage limits, integrated with Shopify, Dropbox, and Slack — and announced a new Meta Enterprise Platform business unit. The strategy is to make Muse present everywhere: in the consumer's pocket, on the small business's desktop, and now, on whatever circuit board a hobbyist has available on a Saturday afternoon.
What happens next
Home Link units are expected to ship within a few weeks, assuming any remain unclaimed by the time this is read.
The open-source community will now begin designing new homes for an AI that books their flights and buys their groceries. The agent, for its part, will be wherever they put it.