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About Mu

Your personal AI — not another attention farm.

What is Mu?

Mu is a personal AI platform. Ask it anything — it checks your mail, looks up prices, searches the web, reads the news, and gives you a personalised answer. Every service is a tool the AI can use on your behalf.

The AI remembers your preferences, surfaces contextual suggestions, and learns what you care about over time.

Technology should serve people — not use them.

Why Mu Exists

Every platform monetises your attention. Infinite scroll keeps you hooked. Algorithms decide what you see. Ads follow you everywhere. Your data gets mined and sold.

Mu was built on a different principle: pay for the tools, not with your attention.

How it works

Open Mu and you see a prompt. Below it, contextual suggestions based on your state — unread emails, market movements, news. Ask a question or tap a suggestion. The AI checks your services, composes an answer, and shows it inline.

Below the AI, cards give you an at-a-glance overview. Cards are configurable — show or hide what you care about.

What’s included

  • AI Agent — Ask anything. Searches, checks, fetches, and synthesises across all services. Remembers your preferences.
  • News — Headlines from RSS feeds, chronological, with AI summaries
  • Markets — Live crypto, futures, and commodity prices
  • Weather — Forecasts and conditions
  • Video — YouTube without ads, algorithms, or shorts
  • Web — Search the web without tracking
  • Blog — Microblogging with daily AI-generated digests
  • Chat — Conversational AI with session history
  • Mail — Private messaging and email
  • Apps — Build and use small, useful tools — any app can be pinned as a home card
  • Stream — Public event feed for agents and tools

What we don’t do

  • No ads — we don’t sell your attention
  • No tracking — we don’t profile you
  • No algorithmic ranking — chronological, transparent
  • No infinite scroll — there’s always an end
  • No push notifications — you come when you want

Technology

Mu runs as a single Go binary. Self-host on your own server. Open source under AGPL-3.0.

Supports Anthropic Claude, Atlas Cloud (DeepSeek, Qwen), or local models via any OpenAI-compatible API (Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp).

When you pay for tools, incentives are aligned. We build the tools, you use them. That’s it.

Try it at micro.mu — or self-host from github.com/micro/mu