Meta’s Charm gadget carries CEO Zuckerberg’s big AI ambitions

By Aditya Soni MENLO PARK, California, Sept 23 (Reuters) Mark Zuckerberg took repeated digs at Apple during Meta s annual event on Wednesday, only to borrow a page from Steve Jobs playbook for a surprise reveal: a pocket-watch-sized device that carries Meta s viral Muse AI agent into the real world. The device, called Muse Charm, highlights a broader shift ​at the social media giant that has long sought to escape Apple and Google s operating systems with a ‌platform of its own. Users can tap the gadget to access Muse directly, bypassing AI apps on smartphones. Having once championed the metaverse — the immersive digital world that inspired the company s name change in 2021 — as the next computing platform, Zuckerberg now sees personal superintelligence as the bigger and more immediate breakthrough, after his previous costly wager failed. It is actually quite clear personal superintelligence will not only come first; it will be much bigger and more important, Zuckerberg ‌said at