Meta Open-Sources Muse Gadgets, Ships 5,000 Home Link Dongles

Meta's Superintelligence Labs built 5,000 USB-C dongles called Muse Home Link and open-sourced the firmware behind them, so anyone with an ESP32 or a spare Raspberry Pi 5 can wire the Muse assistant into their own hardware. Engadget reported the launch, which Nat Friedman announced in a post on X.

The release itself is small and specific: Muse Gadgets is an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK that lets developers bring Muse to their own hardware. Developers grab an API token from gadgets.muse.ai, point a coding agent at the GitHub repo, and build their own peripherals.

Of the reference device, Friedman wrote: 'Muse Home Link is a little usb-c powered device that allows Muse to connect to your home network to talk to smart home devices like TVs and speakers and anything else that exposes https. We manufactured a batch of 5000 Home Links which should' be ready to ship in a few weeks, free to Muse subscribers while supplies last.

Meta's own suggested forms for the community include E Ink displays, HDMI dongles for televisions, and touchscreen accessories similar to the Muse Charm, the tamagotchi-like AI device Mark Zuckerberg showed at Connect. A dedicated Discord carries the project.

The launch lands in the same news cycle as Meta parting with its Virtue AI team, and sits inside a broader run of 315 open-source AI stories we have logged over the past 90 days. A frontier lab shipping its consumer assistant as DIY firmware, with a reference hardware batch attached, is a rarer move than either number suggests.