Meta’s newest acquisition suggests {hardware} plans past glasses and headsets

Meta has acquired Limitless, the maker of an AI-powered “Pendant,” to work on constructing shopper {hardware} for the corporate, the startup introduced by way of a YouTube video and blog post. To date, Meta has centered on promoting VR headsets and AI smart glasses. Now the corporate appears interested by branching out.

“Meta lately introduced a brand new imaginative and prescient to convey private superintelligence to everybody and a key a part of that imaginative and prescient is constructing unimaginable AI-enabled wearables. We share this imaginative and prescient and we’ll be becoming a member of Meta to assist convey our shared imaginative and prescient to life,” Limitless CEO Dan Siroker mentioned within the put up asserting the acquisition.

Limitless’ first product was Rewind, desktop productiveness software program that recorded every part you probably did in your laptop and turned it right into a searchable database you interacted with by way of a chatbot. The corporate later expanded into hardware with Pendant, primarily a clip-on Bluetooth microphone that applies the identical idea (privateness considerations be damned) to the belongings you say or hear all through the day.

The corporate plans to help its current Pendant clients “for at the very least one other 12 months,” however will not promote the wearable going ahead. Present clients will have the ability to entry all of the options of Pendant with out having to pay for a subscription, although Limitless says availability will differ per area. When you have information saved with Limitless and don’t need to maintain onto your Pendant, you are now additionally capable of export or delete your information in the event you select.

AI wearables focused on recording audio have emerged as a standard kind issue primarily as a result of they lean on two issues AI fashions do reasonably effectively: transcribing audio into textual content and summarizing it. Meta dipping its toes into the area is smart, if solely as a result of not everybody will need to put on glasses to obtain the advantages of an AI assistant. Amazon acquired an AI wearable firm referred to as Bee in July 2025, presumably with comparable intentions.

Add in Meta’s recent hiring of former Apple design lead Alan Dye, and you can begin to think about the place issues may be headed. Sooner or later, the Ray-Ban Meta Sensible Glasses and Meta Ray-Ban Display could possibly be two entries in a bigger lineup of AI-powered wearables.