{"id":616616,"date":"2026-06-02T07:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616616\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:09:21","slug":"meta-is-building-an-ai-pendant-and-this-time-it-has-a-working-wearables-business-behind-it-tfn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616616\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is building an AI Pendant and this time it has a working wearables business behind it \u2014 TFN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant and plans to begin testing it within the next year, according to an internal memo viewed by The Information. The project builds directly on Meta\u2019s acquisition of Limitless, an AI wearables startup it bought in late 2025. Limitless made a clip-on Bluetooth device \u2013 literally called Pendant \u2013 that recorded conversations and generated summaries, transcripts, and a searchable database of everything a user said or heard throughout the day.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Meta has not confirmed the report. But the direction was telegraphed the moment it bought Limitless. At the time, Limitless CEO Dan Siroker<\/a> said Meta\u2019s vision for \u201cpersonal superintelligence\u201d through wearables aligned exactly with what the startup was building.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The pendant is one piece of a larger hardware push. Meta\u2019s VP for wearables, Alex Himel, reportedly wrote in the memo that the goal is to get more people using the company\u2019s AI models and to hit 10 million wearable device sales in the second half of 2026. Alongside the pendant, Meta is preparing several new smart glasses models and exploring a new subscription service called Wearables for Work, aimed at business users and targeting features like meeting transcription and workplace platform integration.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The AI wearable category has a graveyard problem. Humane\u2019s AI Pin burned through hundreds of millions before shutting down. The Rabbit R1 faded fast. But Meta\u2019s position is structurally different from those bets. It already sold more than seven million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 and commands roughly 82% of the smart glasses market. The pendant drops into an existing ecosystem with proven consumer demand, not a blank slate.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Reality Labs still lost $19 billion in 2025 and the division has now accumulated nearly $80 billion in total losses since inception. The pendant needs to do more than generate buzz. It needs to prove that always-on ambient AI is something people will actually wear \u2014 and that the people around them will tolerate.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

For more on the AI wearables space, see TFN\u2019s coverage of deep tech hardware<\/a> and US tech funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant and plans to begin testing it within the next year, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,50,86,56,54,55,741,5824],"class_list":["post-616616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us","tag-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}