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 through a YouTube video and blog post. Up to now, Meta has targeted on promoting VR headsets and AI smart glasses. Now the corporate appears inquisitive about branching out.

“Meta not too long ago 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 unbelievable 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 stated within the publish saying the acquisition.

Limitless’ first product was Rewind, desktop productiveness software program that recorded every thing 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, basically 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 present Pendant clients “for a minimum of one other 12 months,” 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. In case you have knowledge saved with Limitless and don’t wish to maintain onto your Pendant, you are now additionally in a position to export or delete your knowledge should you select.

AI wearables focused on recording audio have emerged as a standard type 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 known 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 is perhaps 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.