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 through a YouTube video and weblog put up. To date, Meta has centered on promoting VR headsets and AI good glasses. Now the corporate appears excited by branching out.

“Meta lately introduced a brand new imaginative and prescient to deliver 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 deliver 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 all the pieces you probably did in your pc and turned it right into a searchable database you interacted with through a chatbot. The corporate later expanded into {hardware} with Pendant, primarily a clip-on Bluetooth microphone that applies the identical idea (privateness issues be damned) to the stuff you say or hear all through the day.

The corporate plans to assist its current Pendant clients “for at the least one other yr,” however will not promote the wearable going ahead. Present clients will be capable to entry all of the options of Pendant with out having to pay for a subscription, although Limitless says availability will differ per area. If in case you have knowledge saved with Limitless and don’t wish to maintain onto your Pendant, you are now additionally capable of export or delete your knowledge in case you select.

AI wearables centered on recording audio have emerged as a standard kind issue primarily as a result of they lean on two issues AI fashions do reasonably nicely: transcribing audio into textual content and summarizing it. Meta dipping its toes into the area is sensible, if solely as a result of not everybody will wish 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 related intentions.

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