Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused
Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused
Meta 希望你的下一个小工具也能搭载 Muse
Meta’s Muse, a personal AI agent that books travel, fills out forms, and shops on a user’s behalf, has already proven popular with the masses, but a new side project could be particularly alluring to tinkerers and hackers. Meta 的 Muse 是一款能够代用户预订行程、填写表格和进行购物的个人 AI 智能体，它已经在大众中广受欢迎。不过，一项新的副项目可能会对那些喜欢折腾硬件的极客和黑客们产生特别的吸引力。
On Friday, the company introduced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets developers build their own hardware that connects to Muse. Meta is providing open-source firmware (the low-level software that runs a device), and a Linux software development kit (SDK), along with a few project ideas to get users started. 周五，Meta 推出了 Muse Gadgets，这是一个开源项目，允许开发者构建能够连接到 Muse 的自定义硬件。Meta 提供了开源固件（运行设备的底层软件）和 Linux 软件开发工具包（SDK），并提供了一些项目构思以帮助用户上手。
These include giving Muse a color e-ink display or loading it onto a stick that plugs into a TV’s HDMI port. There don’t appear to be many limits, either. Users can set up a low-cost hobbyist computer like a Raspberry Pi or an off-the-shelf ESP32 board, and then connect Muse “to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else you’ve got lying on your workbench,” Meta notes. The company has also set up a Discord channel to support users. 这些构思包括为 Muse 配备彩色电子墨水屏，或者将其加载到插入电视 HDMI 接口的电视棒上。此外，该项目似乎没有太多限制。Meta 指出，用户可以使用树莓派（Raspberry Pi）等低成本的爱好者电脑，或者现成的 ESP32 开发板，然后将 Muse “连接到你的显示器、按钮、传感器、执行器以及你工作台上任何其他设备上”。该公司还建立了一个 Discord 频道来为用户提供支持。
Meta has already tried the code itself, naturally. 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. 当然，Meta 自己已经先行尝试了这些代码。Meta 超智能实验室（Superintelligence Labs）的产品负责人 Nat Friedman 在 X 上发文称，公司构建了一款名为 Muse Home Link 的小工具。这款由 USB-C 供电的设备可以让 Muse 连接到家庭网络，并与网络上的智能设备（包括音箱和智能电视）进行交互。
Meta made 5,000 of these Home Links, in fact, and is giving them away for free to Muse subscribers while supplies last, according to Friedman. Considering Friedman’s post about Home Link received nearly 30,000 views in a few hours, we’re guessing those freebies have been claimed. Friedman said Home Link would be ready to ship a few weeks. 据 Friedman 称，Meta 实际上制作了 5,000 台 Home Link，并正在向 Muse 订阅用户免费赠送，送完即止。考虑到 Friedman 关于 Home Link 的帖子在几小时内就获得了近 3 万次浏览，我们猜测这些赠品已经被领完了。Friedman 表示，Home Link 将在几周内准备好发货。
Muse Gadgets may not have wide appeal, but it fits nicely into Meta’s all-in strategy to make Muse more than a standalone chatbot. Meta isn’t content to push Muse on everyday consumers; it’s also trying to woo small businesses and enterprises. Muse Gadgets 可能不会有广泛的受众，但它非常契合 Meta 的全面战略，即让 Muse 不仅仅是一个独立的聊天机器人。Meta 并不满足于只向普通消费者推广 Muse，它还在努力争取小型企业和大型企业客户。
The company earlier this week introduced Muse for Small Business, which is free with usage limits and connects Muse to tools such as Shopify, Dropbox, and Slack. It has also launched a new business unit, Meta Enterprise Platform, to help it push its AI offerings to businesses and corporate customers. 本周早些时候，该公司推出了“Muse for Small Business”，该版本在一定使用限制内免费，并将 Muse 与 Shopify、Dropbox 和 Slack 等工具连接起来。此外，Meta 还成立了一个新的业务部门——Meta 企业平台（Meta Enterprise Platform），旨在帮助其向企业和公司客户推广其 AI 产品。