Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Sell You a Tamagotchi? Meet Meta’s Muse Charm
Meta is developing a handheld device dedicated to letting users access a Muse AI agent. At the annual Meta Connect event tonight, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the device, dubbed Muse Charm, which instantly conjured up memories of the Tamogotchi from the 1990s, an egg-like device from Bandai that ran a digital pet. The Charm adopts a similar shape and size, but sports a modern display that shows a user's Muse AI agent.
- ▪Meta is developing a handheld device dedicated to letting users access a Muse AI agent.
- ▪At the annual Meta Connect event tonight, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the device, dubbed Muse Charm, which instantly conjured up memories of the Tamogotchi from the 1990s, an egg-like device from Bandai that ran a digital pet.
- ▪The Charm adopts a similar shape and size, but sports a modern display that shows a user's Muse AI agent.
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Meta is developing a handheld device dedicated to letting users access a Muse AI agent. At the annual Meta Connect event tonight, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the device, dubbed Muse Charm, which instantly conjured up memories of the Tamogotchi from the 1990s, an egg-like device from Bandai that ran a digital pet. The Charm adopts a similar shape and size, but sports a modern display that shows a user's Muse AI agent. The plan is to start shipping the Muse Charm in December, just in time for this holiday season. It might steal some thunder from OpenAI, which has been teasing its own AI hardware device.
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