Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused
THE SO WHAT
Open-sourcing Muse for TVs and toasters is a distribution play — Meta wants its inference stack embedded in third-party hardware before others can lock it out. Device makers now have a free default for on-device AI, but the real decision is whose ecosystem — and data exhaust — they want to be part of.
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