Meta is building a dedicated hardware device for its new Muse AI agent. The product, called Muse Charm, was briefly shown off by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the end of tonight’s Meta Connect presentation. It looks almost like a chunky smartwatch without a strap: just a large screen and a small lanyard to carry the device.
Muse Charm has a fingerprint sensor in the top right corner that you can press to activate and start talking to the agent. There also appears to be a small camera on the device, in addition to what appear to be at least three microphone holes on the front. Zuckerberg said you don’t need to unlock a phone or open an app to use Charm, but he didn’t share how it actually connects to Meta’s servers.
Meta plans to ship the Charm “in time for the December holidays,” but for now Zuckerberg says the company has “only built a few of these so far.” The company still needs to finalize “the finishing material,” he said. Throughout the conference, he teased the device and made references to a translucent exterior that would allow the inside of the device to be seen. He referred to it as an “elevated hacker aesthetic.”
Zuckerberg promised to share more details “soon.”
Muse is less than a month old, but the AI agent has already become a hot new product for Meta. The bot is capable of performing actions on behalf of a user, and Zuckerberg dedicated part of tonight’s speech to new capabilities that Meta is adding to the agent, including using computers on Macs and control over an email address.
There are many companies vying to win the still undefined and largely experimental realm of AI hardware. The closest analogue to the Muse Charm might be the Rabbit R1, a cute device of similar size that housed an AI agent, which wasn’t capable enough to make the product worth carrying. Connect is nothing more than a reminder of how badly Meta wants to win the race to the next big hardware platform – it’s moving quickly to see if Muse as a device is something that can stick.
