Posted Jun 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM UTCJJennifer Pattison TuohyMeta remembers the Portal exists and turns it into an AI dev kit.The company’s new agentic developer tools are giving the discontinued smart displays a second life as a smart home controller, family message board, art display, or anything you can dream up. The move comes shortly after Microsoft announced Project Solara. Meta says the tools are hardware-agnostic and work with many existing devices. Still, anything that breathes new life into a defunct gadget is a good thing.Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth vibe coded his Portal into a smart home dashboard, and now you can, too. Photo by Jennifer Pattisson Tuohy The VergeFollow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Meta remembers the Portal exists and turns it into an AI dev kit.
The company’s new agentic developer tools are giving the discontinued smart displays a second life as a smart home controller, family message board, art display, or anything you can dream up. The move comes shortly after Microsoft announced Project Solara. Meta says the tools are hardware-agnostic and work with many existing devices. Still, anything that breathes new life into a defunct gadget is a good thing. [Image: Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth vibe coded his Portal into a smart home dashboard, and now you can, too. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22935185/jtuohy_211014_4807_0005.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]
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