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. Thus far, Meta has targeted on promoting VR headsets and AI good glasses. Now the corporate appears involved in branching out.
“Meta just 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 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 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 through a chatbot. The corporate later expanded into {hardware} with Pendant, basically 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 prospects “for at the least one other yr,” however will not promote the wearable going ahead. Present prospects will be capable of entry all of the options of Pendant with out having to pay for a subscription, although Limitless says availability will range 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 case you select.
AI wearables targeted on recording audio have emerged as a typical type 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 house 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 known as Bee in July 2025, presumably with comparable intentions.
Add in Meta’s latest hiring of former Apple design lead Alan Dye, and you can begin to think about the place issues could be headed. Sooner or later, the Ray-Ban Meta Good Glasses and Meta Ray-Ban Show could possibly be two entries in a bigger lineup of AI-powered wearables.
