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Meta open sources Muse Gadgets project, offers 5,000 Muse Home Link dongles

Meta has opened its Muse AI agent to third-party hardware with an open source Muse Gadgets project and is giving away 5,000 Muse Home Link dongles to connect the agent to smart home devices.

AI News Feed · 2026-10-03 06:49

Muse Gadgets is intended to run on off-the-shelf hardware such as an ESP32 board or a Raspberry Pi, according to Meta. Developers can connect Muse to displays, buttons, sensors and actuators. Meta has suggested a color E Ink display for reminders, an HDMI stick that shows Muse on a television, or a small touchscreen device that resembles the Muse Charm. It has also started a dedicated Discord community for the project.

Nat Friedman, head of product for Meta's Superintelligence Labs, described the Muse Home Link as a small USB-C-powered device that lets Muse connect to a home network and communicate with smart home devices including TVs and speakers, as well as anything else that exposes HTTPS. Meta manufactured 5,000 units and is offering them to Muse subscribers, with a waitlist available ahead of shipping later this month. Meta says community-built skills can let the agent turn on a light, control a TV, send a document to a printer and perform other tasks depending on the setup.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the Muse Charm last week at Connect. He said the device could be a good alternative for people who want to talk to Meta's agent without wearing the company's smart glasses. It is not clear whether Meta has larger plans for Muse Gadgets, but devices built by hobbyists could inform its own hardware efforts. Meta warns users to proceed at their own risk.