Nat Friedman
Head of product, Meta Superintelligence Labs · as of 2026-10-04 · source
@natfriedman · Website · Wikipedia
Former GitHub CEO and AI investor; leads product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, including the Muse personal agent.
News mentioning Nat Friedman (3)
- Meta lets go of the Virtue AI safety team (Bo Li, Dawn Song, Sanmi Koyejo) four months after hiring it ★★
On Oct 2, 2026 Meta told Semafor that it is parting ways with the employees it hired in June from the AI security startup Virtue AI, including co-founders Bo Li, Dawn Song and Sanmi Koyejo. A spokesperson cited clashing work styles. The exit came the same week OpenAI fired three safety researchers…
- Meta launches Muse Gadgets: open-source ESP32 firmware and a Linux SDK for building hardware that runs its Muse agent, plus a free 'Home Link' dongle ★★
On Oct 2, 2026 Meta Superintelligence Labs announced Muse Gadgets, open-source ESP32 firmware and a Linux SDK that let anyone build hardware devices (e-ink displays, TV dongles, Raspberry Pi 5 projects) that work with its personal agent Muse. Meta also made 5,000 "Muse Home Link" USB-C dongles…
- Meta launches Muse, a free consumer personal AI agent ★★★★
On 2026-09-08 Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent powered by Muse Spark that takes actions - sending email, booking travel, negotiating on a user's behalf - and keeps working after the app is closed. It rolled out free (with paid tiers) in the US on iOS, Android and muse.ai, each agent running…
Posts (4)
- Nat Friedman announces Muse Gadgets (open-source ESP32 firmware and Linux SDK for Muse hardware) original ↗ Nat Friedman @natfriedman · x · 2026-10-02
First-hand launch post from Meta MSL's head of product (~399k views) introducing an open-source hardware ecosystem for Meta's Muse agent. - Nat Friedman: Muse built from scratch but 'heavily inspired' by OpenClaw original ↗ Nat Friedman @natfriedman · x · 2026-09-21
First-hand statement from a Meta Superintelligence Labs leader on Muse's origins (1.2M views). - Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw) on Muse: 'They built their own agent, being inspired' original ↗ Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete · x · 2026-09-21
OpenClaw's creator clarifies Meta did not use OpenClaw code in Muse (578k views). - 'Muse is LITERALLY Openclaw for normies' original ↗ Ansh Nanda @anshnanda · x · 2026-09-21
The viral comparison (990k views) that prompted Nat Friedman's and Peter Steinberger's replies about Muse and OpenClaw.
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