Meta Unveils Muse Charm and Gemini Can Call for You

The AI Engineer Podcast

The episode covers a series of major announcements from the Meta Connect conference, focusing on new AI-integrated hardware like the Muse Ch

Key takeaways

• Meta's new Muse Charm features a 5G modem, fingerprint scanner, and a 2-inch OLED touchscreen for keychain use.
• Google Gemini can now autonomously call businesses and wait on hold to save users time.

Main topics

• Meta Connect hardware announcements
• Google Gemini business calling features

Notable quotes

Move fast and make things.

Conclusion

The episode highlights a shift from pure software experimentation to p

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) Today on the podcast, Meta just held their big Connect conference and unveiled a whole bunch of new features for Muse. Also, they've unveiled new hardware, including a little charm that you can hold and some new camera-less glasses, as some people are kind of worried about cameras and concerned that, you know, the privacy and the security side of walking around with a camera. Some people might not like that, so they have a new tool for that. Also, Google Gemini is now going to be able to call businesses and wait on hold for you, which is incredibly useful coming out of Google. 11 Labs has just hit a $600 million ARR, and they are reporting a $22 billion valuation. They're potentially looking at an IPO in 2028. DeepSeek has just hit an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion. All of that and more on the podcast today. 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If you want to join the community, it's only $19 a month. I'll leave a link in the description. New videos drop every single week. And I think there's about 100 videos, courses. templates all inside of the community right now with over 1300 members. All right. And yeah, links in the description. Okay, let's talk about what Meta just announced today. So this is called Meta's Muse charm. It has a 5g modem inside of it. So it's always connected. It doesn't need the Wi Fi. And Zuckerberg just came out and basically unveiled this whole thing at the conference or at their big conference today. I honestly was really impressed with this for a whole bunch of reasons. Number one, I guess my biggest response is like, Apple, where are you? We've had, you know, the Samsung fold tablet phone thing out for like six years or something like that. Apple comes out with theirs and sure, Apple does things good and it's, you know, delightful and a nice folding phone, but it's super expensive. I don't know how many people are using it. Meanwhile, we have Facebook who I'm not really ever. pegging them as someone that's going to compete with Apple has come out with this device, which if you're watching the video on Apple podcast, because you can now watch videos for the podcast, you'll see that this device is really cool. It's super slick. It looks basically like an Apple watch, like the face of it. And it's just kind of attached to a string kind of like a Tamagotchi. And it's got all of these little Muse characters inside of it, you push a button on the side, which is a fingerprint scanner. So it's, you know, listening for your actual fingerprint, meaning if someone stole it, they wouldn't be able to, you know, use tons and tons of compute. I'm not sure if it's going to be free or charged or how this works. But regardless, you got to hit it with your fingerprint. And then you can talk to it and ask it any questions. Also, I think the fingerprints good security because you'll inevitably have this thing tied into lots of your different accounts and, and lots of information about you will be on there. So it's more personalized. So you wouldn't want someone stealing this for security reasons. So I think that's phenomenal. This thing looks super slick. And I mean, I'm just looking ahead at the future here. It's pretty obvious to me where Meta is going with this. This is going to basically be an interface where you could get away from a phone entirely. I could leave my house if I had this thing on my keychain. That was the idea of it. They said this thing just goes on your keychain. You can leave your house and if you have a question, you can use it and say, hey, call me an Uber from this address to this place. It could call the Uber theoretically and send it to you. My assumption is this thing's going to connect directly with your Muse on your desktop. So if you have your computer open at home with your Muse up and you're gone, you probably can hit this thing and say, just kind of like how OpenAI and there's remote access kind of tools built into, I think it's Dispatch built into Anthropix Cloud. I guarantee this thing's going to get the same features. So you're going to be away. You're going to hit your thumb on this thing. Start talking to it. Say, hey, on my computer, I forgot to shoot this task off before I left, but I just got an email from this person. Can you go grab the spreadsheet from this drive? Pop it into my Gmail folder. It's going to be able to control your computer remote for you. That is so freaking useful for getting tasks done. It's about a two inch display. They have a brand new operating system that is going to run on this hardware. And it