Meta 为其 Muse AI Agent 推出类似电子宠物的可穿戴设备

AI 护身符（AI amulet）在科技行业已经有些陈词滥调——像 Friend 这样的设备，已让许多消费者认为实体 AI 不过是又一个令人翻白眼的概念。

但这并未阻止 Meta 进入这一领域，推出了自己的 AI 可穿戴设备 Muse Charm。该设备旨在为消费者提供另一种方式，使其能够持续连接 Meta 最近发布且已经颇受欢迎的个人 AI Agent——Muse。

Meta CEO 马克·扎克伯格在公司年度 Connect 活动的“one more thing”环节中公布了这款设备。不过，它暂时还未准备出货。扎克伯格表示，其团队仍需“最终完成组件布局”，并承诺这些设备将“在 12 月假日季及时准备好出货”。

Muse Agent 在公司内部以名为 Jolly 的可爱数字头像呈现，它将驻留在这个掌心大小的图腾式设备中。用户可将设备放进口袋，也可挂在钥匙串上。设备配备一块小型屏幕，用于显示代表该 Agent 的头像。用户可以与设备交谈，而设备随后预计能够代表用户执行任务。

扎克伯格在周三的主题演讲中表示：“我们将完整的 Muse 体验，包括完整的实时语音和头像技术栈，装进了一个能挂在钥匙串上、且随时可以交谈的设备里。你只需点击角落里的指纹传感器，就可以开始说话，无须解锁手机或打开应用。”

扎克伯格补充道：“因此，如果你没有佩戴眼镜，这将是迄今为止与你的 Muse 交流、并向它展示你周围情况最快的方式。”

与其提供的功能相称，这款小工具带有一种近似电子宠物（Tamagotchi）的感觉——它是一种轻量、富有个性的设备，旨在让用户始终与 Meta 的软件保持连接。对于这家社交媒体巨头而言，这似乎也是一种相对低风险的方式：在尝试 AI 可穿戴设备的同时，再为其 AI Agent 提供一种面向大众分发的渠道。

The AI amulet has become a bit of a cliché in the tech industry — devices like Friend have turned the idea of physical AI into little more than an exercise in eye-rolling for many consumers.

But that hasn’t stopped Meta from jumping into the arena with its own AI wearable, called Muse Charm, which is designed to give consumers another way to stay connected to its recently launched, and already popular, personal AI agent, Muse.

The device, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a “one more thing” moment during the company’s annual Connect event, isn’t ready to ship just yet. Zuckerberg said his team had to “finalize laying out the components” and promised the devices would be “ready to ship in time for the holidays in December.”

The Muse agent, which is now embodied by a cute digital avatar known within the company as Jolly, lives inside the palm-sized totem that users can carry in their pockets or attach to a keychain. The device comes with a tiny screen that displays the avatar representing the agent. Users can talk to the device, which can then presumably carry out tasks on their behalf.

“We packed the whole Muse experience, including the whole real-time voice and avatar stack, into something that fits on a keychain and is always available to talk to,” Zuckerberg said during Wednesday’s keynote. “You just go ahead and tap here in the fingerprint sensor in the corner, and you can start talking without having to unlock a phone or open an app.”

Zuckerberg added: “So if you’re not wearing glasses, this is going to be by far the fastest way to talk to your Muse and to show what’s going on around you.”

Appropriate for what it offers, the gadget has a quasi-Tamagotchi feel to it — a lightweight, personality-filled device designed to keep users always connected to Meta’s software. It also feels like a relatviely low-stakes way for the social media giant to experiment with AI wearables while also offering yet another way to distribute its AI agent to the masses.