Meta Open-Sources Muse Gadgets and Gives Away 5,000 Free Devices

Meta has built 5,000 Muse Home Link devices and is giving them away free to Muse subscribers while supplies last. The giveaway, announced Friday alongside a new open-source project called Muse Gadgets, marks the company's most concrete step yet toward turning its AI agent into a hardware platform.

Muse Home Link is a USB-C-powered gadget that lets Muse connect to a home network and communicate with smart devices on it, including speakers and smart TVs. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, described the device in a post on X. Meta built it in-house using the same open-source tooling it is now releasing to the public.

That public release is Muse Gadgets, a project aimed squarely at tinkerers and hackers. Meta is providing open-source firmware — the low-level software that runs a device — plus a Linux software development kit and a handful of starter project ideas. The suggested builds include giving Muse a color e-ink display or loading it onto a stick that plugs into a TV's HDMI port.

The hardware requirements are minimal. Users can run Muse Gadgets on a low-cost hobbyist computer like a Raspberry Pi or an off-the-shelf ESP32 board. From there, the possibilities widen considerably. Users can connect Muse "to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else you've got lying on your workbench," Meta notes.

To support the community, Meta has set up a Discord channel for users.

Friedman said Home Link would be ready to ship in a few weeks. Demand appears strong: his post about the device drew nearly 30,000 views within hours of publication, which suggests the free units may already be claimed.

The maker crowd may be niche, but the strategy behind Muse Gadgets is not. Muse — the personal AI agent that books travel, fills out forms, and shops on a user's behalf — has already proven popular with consumers. Meta's broader bet is that Muse becomes more than a standalone chatbot, embedded instead in the physical and commercial environments where people already work.

That push extends well beyond hobbyist hardware. Earlier this 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 has also launched a new business unit, Meta Enterprise Platform, tasked with selling its AI offerings to businesses and corporate customers.

Taken together, the moves sketch a three-front campaign: consumer gadgets, small-business tooling, and enterprise sales. Muse Gadgets likely will not move revenue on its own. But it seeds an ecosystem of developers building hardware around Muse at minimal cost to Meta — and every new device, display, or sensor wired into the agent deepens its usefulness before rivals' agents arrive on the same workbenches.