Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets so tinkerers can build hardware around its AI agent

Open-source firmware and an SDK

Meta has released Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets developers build their own hardware connected to Muse, the company's personal AI agent that handles tasks such as booking travel, completing forms and shopping online for its users, according to TechCrunch.

The package includes open-source firmware — the low-level software that controls a device — together with a Linux software development kit. To help people get started, Meta published a handful of example projects, among them attaching a color e-ink display to Muse or loading the agent onto a stick that plugs into a television's HDMI port.

Built around cheap, common hardware

The project appears deliberately permissive. As TechCrunch reports, builders can run it on low-cost hobbyist computers such as a Raspberry Pi or an off-the-shelf ESP32 board, then link Muse to displays, buttons, sensors, actuators and other components lying around the workbench. Meta has also opened a Discord channel where users can get help.

Meta built one first: the Muse Home Link

The company has already used the code itself. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, wrote in a post on X that Meta built a device called Muse Home Link. Powered over USB-C, it connects Muse to a home network so the agent can communicate with the smart devices on it, including speakers and smart TVs.

Meta manufactured 5,000 Home Links and is giving them away free to Muse subscribers while supplies last, Friedman said. His post drew nearly 30,000 views within a few hours, which TechCrunch reads as a sign the giveaway stock is already spoken for. Home Link is expected to ship within a few weeks.

Part of a bigger push beyond the chatbot

Muse Gadgets will not appeal to everyone, but it fits a broader pattern. TechCrunch notes that earlier in the same week Meta introduced Muse for Small Business, a free tier with usage limits that connects the agent to tools such as Shopify, Dropbox and Slack. The company also set up a new unit, the Meta Enterprise Platform, to sell its AI products to corporate customers.

Why it matters

The release moves Muse from an app people talk to toward a platform other people can build products on top of. By open-sourcing the firmware and shipping an SDK, Meta is inviting hardware hobbyists — and eventually device makers — to embed its agent in physical objects such as displays, sensors, TV dongles and home-automation hubs, rather than keeping it confined to Meta's own software.

The Home Link reference device points at the smart home as an early target, territory long contested by the big voice assistants. For tinkerers, the practical draw is the low barrier to entry: an inexpensive Raspberry Pi or ESP32 board is enough to start experimenting. And for Meta, every community-built gadget becomes another surface where Muse, rather than a rival assistant, is the agent in the room.