Meta built a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent

Meta has built a small, Tamagotchi-like wearable for Muse, its AI agent, according to TechCrunch. The tiny device gives Muse another mobile home, extending the agent beyond the screens it currently lives on.

The interesting detail is the form factor rather than any specification. A toy-like, wearable object reads as a companion you carry around, not a shrunken phone, which is a deliberate choice about how an agent should feel present.

Muse is Meta's AI agent, and until now its main entry points have been software. Putting the agent into dedicated hardware gives it a persistent physical presence, something a user can see and touch without opening an app first.

That fits a broader shift in where agents live. Conversational assistants started inside phones, then moved into earbuds and glasses, and now the hardware is getting smaller and more explicitly companionable. The device stops being a computer and starts being the agent's body.

For Meta, a pocketable object is also a frequency play. An assistant on a phone has to be summoned; something worn or carried is visible all day, which makes interaction more continuous and habit formation easier.

A prototype shaped like a toy is still far from a shipping product, though. TechCrunch describes hardware Meta has made, but pricing, launch timing, available markets and what Muse can actually do on the device all remain to be confirmed by the company.

The next question is whether Meta productizes this form at all, and whether outside developers get to build for it. If agent competition shifts from model quality to owning everyday moments, the choice of hardware shape becomes a strategic one.