Inside Muse: How a Raspberry Pi weekend demo became Meta's fastest-growing AI consumer product
lennysan · x · 2026-11-15
Mona Sarantakos, VP of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs and head of product for Muse, gives her first podcast interview on how Muse was built and launched.
- In late January, Nat Friedman tried OpenClaw and urged Meta folks to test it. Unable to find a Mac Mini, Sarantakos spent a weekend setting it up on a Raspberry Pi; by Monday it had assembled everything her kids had going on at school that week. Her reply: "This is it. I'm in."
- Seven months later the team launched Muse, now the fastest-growing AI consumer product ever — deliberately waiting seven months despite starting before all competitors.
- Also covered: the two levers that actually move activation for an AI agent, and how Nat Friedman, Alexandr Wang, and Mark Zuckerberg each shaped the product.
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