Meta Connect: Muse agent gets Charm wearable, glasses integration and Mac control

Meta puts Muse at the center of Connect

Meta used its annual Connect event in Menlo Park to argue that Muse, the personal AI agent it launched in early September, is its biggest consumer AI bet to date. According to TechCrunch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Muse the centerpiece of the company's vision and said he expects it to grow into a personal superintelligence that billions of people will use to accomplish their goals. The agent runs on Muse Spark, Meta's multimodal model built for agentic work, and connects to a user's apps and services to handle everyday tasks such as email and calendars. Meta is keeping Muse free for a large number of tokens and plans to profit by taking a small fee on transactions.

A dedicated gadget: Muse Charm

The clearest signal of the push is hardware. At the end of the keynote, Zuckerberg briefly showed the Muse Charm, a standalone device built around the agent. The Verge describes it as resembling a chunky smartwatch without a strap: a big screen, a lanyard for carrying it around, a fingerprint sensor on the top right corner that you press to start talking to the agent, what appears to be a small camera, and at least three microphone holes on the front. Zuckerberg said users will not need to unlock a phone or open an app, but he did not explain how the device actually connects to Meta's servers.

The Verge reports that Meta intends to ship the Charm in time for the December holidays, although Zuckerberg said the company has "only built a few of these so far" and still has to finalize the finishing material. He teased a translucent exterior showing the internals, an aesthetic he called "elevated hacker." The Verge also notes the closest analog is the Rabbit R1, a similarly sized AI gadget whose agent was not capable enough to justify carrying it — a reminder of how unproven this product category remains.

Muse heads to smart glasses

Muse is also coming to Meta's smart glasses line. According to TechCrunch, the agent will activate via a wake word and will be able to guide users through personalized workouts, log meals, book appointments and help buy products they see. Muse will work in the background and check back in when a task is done. The timeline is loose: TechCrunch reports Meta said the feature should launch in the "coming months," while The Verge's Connect roundup describes it as something Meta is still "working on."

Avatars, Mac control and its own inbox

On the software side, Meta introduced several additions. A new model called Muse Realtime Avatar will let users conjure a distinct digital avatar for their agent — TechCrunch notes the physical avatar is named Jolly — and video chat with it in real time, a feature demoed on stage. Muse is also getting computer use on the Mac, meaning it can operate any app on a user's desktop, much like agents from OpenAI and Anthropic. Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said users can walk away from their computer and Muse "keeps working for you on all the jobs you lined up."

The agent will also receive its own email address, arriving "soon" per TechCrunch, so users can add Muse to a thread or forward messages for it to handle.

Built for shopping and third-party connectors

Meta framed much of the expansion around commerce. Wang said Muse can access the entire Shopify product catalog agentically and pay using Shop Pay, with added support for PayPal, backed by partnerships with Stripe and Shopify. New retail connectors include Best Buy, Gap, Sephora, Walmart and Wayfair, plus Expedia and, soon, Instacart, alongside GitHub, Granola and Notion. Meta also opened a platform for developers to build their own connectors and received more than 1,500 applications in under a week, according to Wang.

The wider Connect event, as covered by The Verge, also brought new wearables, including $1,299 Meta VR Glasses arriving in spring 2027, camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses at $349 and the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 at $449.

Why it matters

Muse is less than a month old, yet Meta is already pairing the software agent with its own hardware endpoints — glasses and the Charm — plus a transaction-based business model that ties revenue directly to the agent completing purchases and tasks. The open connector platform echoes early app-store land grabs, with developers apparently eager to build for it. The open questions are whether consumers want another AI gadget after the Rabbit R1's failure, and whether an agent holding email access, desktop control and payment rails can earn enough trust to become the daily companion Meta envisions.