nanoMuse: An Open-Source Personal Agent for Every Device You Own

[HF Papers] Guangyi Liu, Yong Liu, Jiangning Zhang and others proposed an open-source personal agent named nanoMuse in a report, describing it as the open-source counterpart to Meta's Muse and released under the GPL-3.0 license. The paper states that Muse is an agent for a single individual, with account, device, memory and continuous conversation capabilities, but that it is closed-source, deployed on the vendor's cloud and limited to a single country. The authors argue that a personal agent should be able to operate a user's accounts and devices, remember across weeks, speak up proactively when warranted, and be accountable for its own actions; it is a piece of software rather than a model, and no open-source counterpart previously existed. nanoMuse runs one agent on every device a user owns, can operate phone screens and computers, shares the same conversation through a relay that anyone can run, routes all actions through Sentinel, keeps memory as user-readable files, and lets the user choose the model. The paper states that its scale and cost figures are estimates, and lists open memory provenance, an operating-capability evaluation suite and accompanying open models as its roadmap.