Meta and OpenAI are developing AI-powered devices, including a pendant-like device and a Tamagotchi-like device, to be released in 2027 and before the holiday shopping season, respectively.
Meta is developing a pendant-like device called the Muse Charm, featuring its AI agent Muse.
OpenAI is working with Jony Ive on a device to be released in 2027.
OpenAI's AI agent Dots is a personalizable AI agent with colored blobs and eyes.
OpenAI's Dots may be used as a primary interface for interacting with ChatGPT in the future.
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Sam Altman onstage at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026. | Photo: Hayden Field / The Verge
While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for physical hardware with their cutesy software agents.
"Hardware is hard" is a tech industry mantra. Dedicated AI devices like the Friend and Humane AI Pin have inspired mainly frustration and backlash, which may only worsen as public anger toward AI grows. Meta and OpenAI, however, are both pushing ahead. OpenAI is working with famed ex-Apple designer Jony Ive and pla …
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