Meta manufactured 5,000 units of a ready-made device called the Muse Home Link and rolled out on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, an AI assistant called Muse — known internally as Hatch — that can autonomously send emails, sell a car and book travel on a person’s behalf, alongside open-sourcing the code for custom DIY hardware gadgets and opening a waitlist for physical home link devices.
Meta Open-Sources Muse Code for Custom DIY AI Gadgets
Modeled on the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, the assistant is the centerpiece of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to supply personal superintelligence
to the billions of people who use Meta’s services daily. Developers and hardware enthusiasts can now build their own Muse AI gadgets using code open-sourced by Meta. The initiative invites creators to program off-the-shelf microcontrollers and single-board computers to bring the company’s artificial intelligence agent directly onto physical hardware on their workbenches.
Initially available in the U.S. via a dedicated Muse app or Meta’s WhatsApp messaging service, a basic version of the agent is free, while Meta offers subscriptions priced at $20 a month and $100 a month for heavier usage, according to a company spokesperson. Meta suggests loading the agent onto color E Ink displays to present reminders, connecting it to HDMI sticks to project interfaces onto large screens, or building small touchscreen units that resemble custom charms. The company provides software development kits to configure the necessary hardware components. Meta also plans to add the agent to its line of smart glasses “soon,” without elaborating, and intends to introduce an encrypted version of Muse later this year while allowing people to opt out of their interactions being used to train Meta’s AI models.
According to Nat Friedman of Meta Superintelligence Labs, users can currently sign up for a waitlist to secure one of the physical units ahead of shipping scheduled for this month. Along with the code release, Meta manufactured 5,000 units of a ready-made device called the Muse Home Link.
Hardware Connects AI Agents to Domestic Electronics
Designed to access a person’s apps across categories like email, calendar, payments, health, shopping and the smart home, people choose which apps it connects to and can revoke access at any time. The physical hardware relies on community-built skills to bridge the AI agent with domestic electronics and office equipment. Each Muse agent runs on its own virtual machine, a cloud-based emulation of a personal computer, enabling it to keep carrying out requests in the background even when a person is not actively using it. Once configured, the system lets individuals turn on a light, control your TV, send a document to a printer, and more, depending on the specific setup in each home. Despite providing the SDKs and open-source code, the company issues a brief caution to builders working with the hardware components: Proceed at your own risk!
