Meta open-sources code for building Muse AI gadgets

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Meta has released open-source code that lets developers build gadgets powered by its Muse AI model. The article describes a builder who used the Amblyotube repository and the Muse model on a Raspberry Pi to create a gaze-tracking therapy setup for amblyopia. Muse's compact, quantized design allowed on-device inference at around 60 frames per second with a model under 4 MB. Fine-tuning on a few labeled sessions reportedly reduced calibration error from 2.4 degrees to 0.7 degrees. The author encourages others to assemble similar projects from the publicly available code on GitHub.

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