Meta's new gadget puts an AI agent in your palm instead of on your face
Meta's new gadget puts an AI agent in your palm instead of on your face
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Meta's new gadget puts an AI agent in your palm instead of on your face
Abhimanyu Ghoshal
September 24, 2026
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Consumer Tech
Meta's new gadget puts an AI agent in your palm instead of on your face
Abhimanyu Ghoshal
September 24, 2026
Meta's new gadget puts an AI agent in your palm instead of on your face
Meta's Muse Charm puts an animated avatar to the personal AI agent you can assign tasks to
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Meta's Muse Charm puts an animated avatar to the personal AI agent you can assign tasks to
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It's cute, but it really doesn't need to exist as a piece of hardware
Meta – the parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – just wrapped up its Connect event where it showed off everything it's been working on recently. One product that caught my eye was a little gadget in CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hand that's small enough to fit on a keychain.
It's called the Muse Charm, and it's a little device with a screen displaying a cutesy animated avatar which embodies Meta's Muse AI agent.
You press the fingerprint sensor on the side to interact with it; it's got voice tech that it can use to hear and respond to you. Watch Zuckerberg show it off at the keynote in the video below (segment starts at 53:02):
Meta Connect Keynote 2026
Details on this thing are slim, so we'll have to back up a bit to understand what's on offer. An AI agent can be assigned tasks which it can automatically complete on your behalf, such as booking tickets and hotels for a vacation, or replying to a raft of emails.
For its part, Meta's built Muse so you can grant the agent access to your online accounts, and simply chat to it – like you would with ChatGPT or Claude – so it can complete tasks for you. Muse is available in select countries via a mobile app, browser, and WhatsApp chat.
Meet Muse, your personal AI agent
Meta has partnered with service providers like Google for Gmail and Drive, Shopify for ecommerce, OpenTable for restaurant reservations, Ticketmaster for event bookings, and PayPal an