What Flux is
Flux is an AI hardware engineer for complete devices. It helps your team design electronics, mechanical parts, and firmware in one project, then verify the design and prepare manufacturing files.
Flux vs Meta Muse: A personal AI agent for daily plans. An AI engineer for complete devices.
Meta Muse turns schedules, shopping, and long-term goals into action plans. Flux turns a hardware requirement into an electronics and mechanical design that your team can review in one live project.
What Flux and Muse are
What Meta Muse is
Muse is Meta's personal AI agent.[1]
Muse turns schedules, shopping, and long-term goals into action plans.[2]
People can message Muse in its app or on WhatsApp. It can connect to email, calendars, payments, and smart-home tools, and it runs in a dedicated secure virtual machine with the user's data.[2]
What Muse does
A live project for the complete hardware design.
Muse is a personal agent for plans and everyday tasks. Flux is an AI hardware engineer for professional teams. It connects electrical, PCB, mechanical, and firmware design with simulation and manufacturing files in one shared project.
| Feature | Flux | Muse |
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| Requirements and specification | The AI engineer turns your idea into requirements and a product specification, and checks the design against them. | Turns schedules, shopping, and long-term goals into action plans.[2] |
| What it is | AI hardware engineer with native tools for electronics and mechanical design | Meta's personal AI agent.[1] |
| Where it runs | Use Flux in your browser without installing software. Projects stay in the cloud. | Dedicated app and WhatsApp.[2] |
| Who does the design work | The Flux agent. Your engineers review and edit. | People direct Muse through messages and connected services.[2] |
| Schematic and parts | Draw schematics with 734,000+ public parts available. | No built-in schematic design workspace.[1] |
| Board layout and routing | PCB layout and routing are built in | No built-in board layout and routing workspace.[1] |
| Placement and routing | The AI engineer places the parts and routes the board like an experienced designer. Your engineers review and edit. | No built-in PCB trace-routing tools.[1] |
| High-speed design | The AI engineer routes differential pairs, tunes lengths, and sets trace impedance from your stackup. Your engineers review and edit. | No built-in PCB signal-integrity analysis.[1] |
| Parts and sourcing | 734,000+ public parts, with live prices and stock from distributors | No built-in electronics parts library.[1] |
| Simulation and design rule checks | SPICE, electromagnetic, thermal, and mechanical simulation with design rule checks | No built-in hardware simulation workspace.[1] |
| Firmware | Write firmware for the board it designs | Muse Code plans, writes, and validates code in a terminal.[3] |
| Wiring harnesses | Built in. Flux designs the wiring harnesses between the boards: connectors, pinouts, and wires, in the same project. | No built-in wire-harness design workspace.[1] |
| Manufacturing files | Manufacturing outputs include Gerber, ODB++, IPC-2581, bills of materials, and pick-and-place files | No built-in hardware manufacturing-file workflow.[1] |
| Quotes and orders | Quotes and orders for boards, 3D printing, CNC machining, and wire harnesses, from the project. | No built-in hardware quoting or ordering workflow.[1] |
| Import from other tools | Imports complete projects from Altium, OrCAD and Allegro, KiCad, PADS and Xpedition, CADSTAR, Eagle, Fusion Electronics, EasyEDA, DipTrace, and SOLIDWORKS PCB. Flux imports Labcenter Proteus SDF netlists with Specctra board exports. IPC-2581 revision B and C files become board projects with reusable footprint parts. | No built-in EDA project importer.[1] |
| Versions, branches, and merges | Full change history. The AI engineer forks a design into a second version, keeps both, and merges the changes that you pick. | No native hardware design version history.[1] |
| Who reviews the work | Your electrical, layout, mechanical, and firmware team reviews one live browser project. | You prompt the assistant and review its responses.[1] |
| Product images, videos, and documents | Product images, product videos, datasheets, and regulatory documents, made from the design in the project. | Creates action plans from schedules, shopping, and goals.[2] |
| Mechanical CAD | Create mechanical parts with kernel-agnostic CAD, from enclosures to robot arms. | No built-in mechanical CAD design workspace.[1] |
| Mechanical simulation | Finite-element stress, thermal, and airflow simulation | No built-in mechanical simulation workspace.[1] |
| Mechanical manufacturing | STEP, STL, and 3MF files, plus quotes for 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal, and laser cutting | No built-in mechanical manufacturing workflow.[1] |
| CNC toolpaths and G-code | The AI engineer writes the toolpaths, the G-code, a toolpath preview, and a setup sheet for the parts that it designed. | No built-in CNC toolpath or G-code workflow.[1] |
| AI models | Frontier models from several providers, including Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini models | Muse models[4] |
| Tool licenses | The Flux plan includes the editor, mechanical CAD, parts data, simulation, and manufacturing files. | Access through the Muse app or WhatsApp.[2] |
| Team knowledge and rules | Define rules for your organization once. Flux applies them across projects and checks every design. | Connects email, calendars, payments, and smart-home tools.[2] |
| Parallel work | Projects progress in parallel with team updates. Flux requests approval before major changes. | Muse Code runs parallel persistent subagents.[3] |
Orchestration
Connect the hardware disciplines.
Flux keeps electrical and mechanical design together with firmware and manufacturing files in one product project.
One product requirement
The board and its physical parts stay connected to the same design goal.
Coordinate board and enclosure
Align mounting holes, connectors, and openings in the product design.
Review the complete design
Your team can inspect electrical and mechanical work from one place.
Keep the project current
Changes and comments stay with the live design for everyone to review.
A complete sensor device
Flux keeps the board, its mounting points, the connectors, and enclosure openings together. Engineers can review the electronic and mechanical design as one device.
Built for teams
Give engineers and reviewers one project.
Your team can open Flux in a browser and collaborate on the current hardware design.
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Live project sharing
Keep revisions, comments, and design files in one cloud project.
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Team design context
Make standards, parts, and past decisions available to the team.
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AI collaboration
Review AI design work and continue in the same shared workspace.
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Start in a browser
Use Flux without installing local CAD software.
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Use voice
Talk to the AI hardware engineer from a computer or phone.
Customizable
Set the practices Flux follows.
Use your design guidance, connect services, and make Flux fit the way your organization works.
Organization guidance
Share design standards and approved parts with each project.
Layout and supplier rules
Define constraints for boards and fabricators.
Connected tools
Link MCP servers or web APIs to the engineering workflow.
Private service keys
Let admins manage API credentials without exposing them to the AI engineer.
Live project utilities
Add a power budget, product checklist, or interactive 3D assembly.
External AI access
Use Flux with Claude Code, Cursor, or other MCP-compatible tools.
Connect services your team already uses.
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Onshape -
Autodesk Fusion -
PTC Windchill -
Siemens Teamcenter -
Arena PLM -
OpenBOM -
Duro -
GitHub -
GitLab -
Memfault -
Golioth -
Particle -
Nordic nRF Cloud -
Edge Impulse -
NI SystemLink -
SimScale -
Octopart -
SiliconExpert
Design a physical product in one workspace
Turn hardware needs into a design
Flux connects product requirements to electrical and mechanical engineering work.
Include every part of the device
Keep the schematic, board, enclosure, firmware, and production data together.
Use the tools in one plan
Flux includes design editors, simulation, project import, and manufacturing support.
Select from 734,000+ public components
Live distributor data helps teams choose and source parts for the design.
Verify before fabrication
Check the design with simulation, electrical rules, and component datasheets.
Review with the whole team
Engineers can collaborate in one live project with organization and project controls.
Model-agnostic AI
Choose from multiple model providers
Flux runs frontier models from several providers, including Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini models. Adaptive model selection chooses a capable model for each engineering task and helps deliver frontier performance at 30% lower cost.
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Google Gemini
- More as they ship
Frontier performance at 30% lower cost.
Flux chooses a capable model for engineering work with cost in view. Your team gets model choice and keeps the design connected to its tools.
Frontier AI models
- Reasoning
- Planning
- Language
Flux engineering harness
- CAD and EDA tools
- Project context
- Simulation
- Design rules
Working hardware
- Schematics
- Boards
- Enclosures
- Firmware
- Fab files
- Product videos
Select from several providers
Use frontier models from multiple providers in the Flux hardware project.
Work with built-in engineering tools
Flux provides models with access to project context and design workflows.
Adopt new models in place
Use model updates without migrating your project or design environment.
Avoid a single-provider choice
Keep the option to use multiple model providers for engineering work.
Consider capability and cost
Adaptive selection considers what the engineering task needs and the model price.
One platform
One AI engineer for every part of the product.
Muse plans personal activities. Flux organizes the design of a physical product across electrical and mechanical engineering.
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Electrical engineering
Convert the product brief into parts, schematics, and simulated circuits.
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PCB layout
Place and route the board, set its layers, and check design rules.
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Mechanical design
Make enclosures and mounts that fit board holes and connectors. Import STEP models and use the shared electrical and mechanical parts library.
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Firmware
Develop firmware for the board and build, analyze, and unit test it.
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Manufacturing
Source components, get quotes, and prepare production files for the full device.
Verification lab
Review checks across the product.
Flux uses simulation and design checks to help your team review hardware before manufacturing.
Circuit simulation
Analyze analog, power, and mixed-signal circuits with SPICE.
Electromagnetic simulation
Review routed-board impedance, signal parameters, coupling, and antennas.
Thermal simulation
Check heat and airflow for boards and mechanical enclosures.
Fluid simulation
Study the enclosure cooling paths around fans, vents, and heat sinks.
Mechanical simulation
Evaluate stress on the product's enclosures and mounting parts.
Design rule checks
Check the schematic and board against electrical and production rules.
Datasheet verification
Check component ratings and pinouts against the part datasheets.
Sourcing
Select parts with current distributor data.
Flux checks live availability and compares prices for electronic components and mechanical hardware.
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Digi-Key -
LCSC -
Mouser -
Arrow -
Verical -
TME -
HQonline -
McMaster-Carr -
MISUMI -
JLCMC
Manufacturing
Get quotes for the physical product.
Flux can request live pricing for boards, assemblies, cables, and mechanical manufacturing.
Circuit boards and assembly
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JLCPCB -
PCBWay -
OSH Park -
AISLER
Mechanical parts
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Craftcloud - JLC 3D printing
- PCBWay 3D printing
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Shapeways -
OSH Cut -
SendCutSend
Cables and wiring harnesses
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MiniProto
Keep hardware data protected.
- SOC 2-aligned cloud infrastructure
- Single sign-on for team members
- Project-level permissions
- Design inputs and outputs stay your intellectual property
- Flux does not train on customer data
Flux pricing
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Teams
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Eligible individual plans include a free trial. Teams subscriptions start paid; trial and pricing terms depend on your current offer. See all plans
When to use which
Use Muse for personal plans and connected daily tasks. Choose Flux when your team needs an electronics and mechanical design that is ready for manufacturing. Flux's AI engineer does design work in hours; the same work without Flux takes days or weeks.
Questions
No. Flux is model agnostic and runs frontier models from several providers, including Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini models. Adaptive model selection chooses a capable model for each engineering task.
Flux connects electrical, PCB, mechanical, and firmware work in a shared live project, with simulation and design rule checks.
Yes. Flux uses simulation, design rule checks, and datasheet verification to check its work before your team reviews it.
No. Flux operates entirely in your browser. It deploys updated capabilities and models automatically, without a manual upgrade.
Yes. Engineers can use the project link to collaborate simultaneously. Single sign-on and project-level permissions control who can access it.
No. Flux does not train on customer data. Your inputs and outputs remain your intellectual property.
Start a hardware project with Flux.
Review Flux plans for your team or schedule a product walkthrough.
Sources
- Meta Muse: https://ai.meta.com/muse/
- Meta Muse launch coverage: https://apnews.com/article/meta-muse-ai-agent-3a4572eb4cf4e95d8a0dfdad6e6ca065
- Muse Code and Muse Spark: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2
- Meta AI models: https://dev.meta.ai/docs/models