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 client {hardware} for the corporate, the startup introduced by way of a YouTube video and blog post. To date, Meta has targeted on promoting VR headsets and AI smart glasses. Now the corporate appears thinking about branching out.

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

Limitless’ first product was Rewind, desktop productiveness software program that recorded all the things 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 issues be damned) to the belongings 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 now not promote the wearable going ahead. Present clients will be capable of entry all of the options of Pendant with out having to pay for a subscription, although Limitless says availability will differ per area. You probably have information saved with Limitless and don’t wish to maintain onto your Pendant, you are now additionally in a position to export or delete your information should 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 properly: 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 known as Bee in July 2025, presumably with related intentions.

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