Meta Opens Muse Gadgets to Developers and Gives Away Home Link Devices
Meta introduced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project for building hardware that connects to its Muse AI agent, and is giving away 5,000 Home Link devices to subscribers.
There do not appear to be many limits. Users can set up a low-cost hobbyist computer such as a Raspberry Pi or an off-the-shelf ESP32 board, and then connect Muse to displays, buttons, sensors, actuators and whatever else they have on a workbench, Meta said. The company has also set up a Discord channel to support users.
Meta has tried the code itself. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, said in a post on X that the company built a gadget called Muse Home Link. The USB-C-powered device lets Muse connect to a home network and talk to the smart devices on it, including speakers and smart TVs.
Meta made 5,000 Home Links and is giving them away for free to Muse subscribers while supplies last, Friedman said. He said Home Link would be ready to ship in a few weeks. His post received nearly 30,000 views in a few hours, and TechCrunch AI said that suggested the free devices had likely been claimed.
Muse Gadgets may not have wide appeal, but it fits Meta’s all-in strategy to make Muse more than a standalone chatbot. The company is also trying to woo small businesses and enterprises. Earlier this week it introduced Muse for Small Business, which is free with usage limits and connects Muse to tools such as Shopify, Dropbox and Slack. It also launched a new business unit, Meta Enterprise Platform, to help push its AI offerings to businesses and corporate customers.