In the ongoing human effort to make intelligence itself into something you can hold, Meta has unveiled Charm — a consumer AI device that reflects CEO Mark Zuckerberg's deepening conviction that the next era of computing will be physical, personal, and powered by artificial intelligence. Announced in late September 2026, the gadget is less a product than a philosophical statement: that the future belongs not to platforms or apps, but to objects that think alongside us. Meta is placing a large, deliberate bet that embedding AI into hardware is not a detour from its mission, but the mission itsel