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Meta opens a free Muse AI agent hardware SDK, gives away 5,000 home hubs

· by Pondero Newsdesk

The short version

Meta released an open-source SDK and firmware that let developers wire its Muse AI agent into a Raspberry Pi, an ESP32 board, or custom hardware, and it shipped 5,000 free USB-C hubs to Muse subscribers while supplies last.

Meta opens a free Muse AI agent hardware SDK, gives away 5,000 home hubs

Meta released open-source firmware and a Linux software development kit on October 2, 2026, that let developers wire its Muse AI agent into a Raspberry Pi, an ESP32 board, or hardware built from scratch, and it is giving away 5,000 free USB-C hubs so Muse can reach smart-home devices without a custom build.

What

The project, called Muse Gadgets, ships two SDKs under an Apache 2.0 license: one for ESP32 microcontrollers, one for Linux boards such as the Raspberry Pi, hosted on GitHub. Meta's own project page lists seven working examples developers can buy and flash today, including a Raspberry Pi 5 wired into Home Assistant, a Seeed color e-ink display that shows Muse's morning briefing, and a pocket M5Stack button that answers out loud. An HDMI stick that would put Muse on a TV screen is marked "coming soon" and has not shipped yet. Meta also built its own device, Muse Home Link, a USB-C hub that connects Muse to a home Wi-Fi network so it can turn on a light, control a TV, or send a document to a printer through community-built skills. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, said on X that Meta manufactured 5,000 Home Link units and is shipping them free to Muse subscribers in the US while supplies last, according to TechCrunch. Meta's signup page confirms the US-only cap of one unit per subscriber and says the hubs ship in October.

Developers can ship Muse hardware today, the free hubs will not last

Five of the seven project templates on Meta's page already point to boards a developer can buy off the shelf right now, not reference designs Meta plans to ship later, per the vendor page. That matters for anyone building an ambient or embedded AI assistant: the SDK gives Muse a path onto buttons, e-ink screens, and sensors without reverse-engineering its API, and the Apache 2.0 license means the code can be forked into a commercial product. The Home Link giveaway is a smaller and shorter-lived opportunity. Meta capped it at 5,000 units and restricted it to the US, and Friedman's own post describing the device drew nearly 30,000 views within a few hours, TechCrunch reported, a sign of how fast interest in the free hardware moved. The release also lands the same week Meta launched Muse for Small Business, a free tier with usage limits that connects Muse to Shopify, Dropbox, and Slack, and stood up a new Meta Enterprise Platform business unit, per TechCrunch.

What to watch next

Whether outside hardware makers ship products built on the Muse Gadgets SDK beyond Meta's own project-idea list, and whether Meta restocks Home Link past the initial 5,000 units once the October ship window closes.

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