Meta beat OpenAI to the punch on announcing an AI gadget
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By shipping Charm first, Meta is trying to anchor consumer expectations for AI hardware around its own agent and ecosystem. If you’re betting on OpenAI or others, plan for a multi-agent, multi-device world — your integrations and identity model can’t assume a single dominant assistant.
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