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 blog post. To this point, Meta has targeted on promoting VR headsets and AI smart glasses. Now the corporate appears concerned with branching out.

“Meta not too long ago 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 submit asserting the acquisition.

Limitless’ first product was Rewind, desktop productiveness software program that recorded every thing you probably did in your laptop 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 belongings you say or hear all through the day.

The corporate plans to help its present Pendant clients “for no less than one other 12 months,” however will now 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. When you’ve got knowledge saved with Limitless and don’t wish to maintain onto your Pendant, you are now additionally capable of export or delete your knowledge when you select.

AI wearables focused on recording audio have emerged as a typical type 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 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 may be headed. Sooner or later, the Ray-Ban Meta Sensible Glasses and Meta Ray-Ban Display may very well be two entries in a bigger lineup of AI-powered wearables.