{"id":332878,"date":"2025-12-05T23:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332878\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:09:09","slug":"meta-acquires-ai-wearables-startup-limitless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332878\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta acquires AI-wearables startup Limitless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">By Echo Wang<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Dec 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Meta (<a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/META\" data-ylk=\"slk:META;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">META<\/a>) has acquired AI-wearables startup Limitless, maker of a pendant-style device that records and transcribes \u200breal-world conversations, as the social media giant doubles down on \u200cefforts to build AI-enabled consumer hardware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;Meta recently announced a new vision to bring personal \u200csuperintelligence to everyone and a key part of that vision is building incredible AI-enabled wearables. We share this vision and we&#8217;ll be joining Meta to help bring our shared vision to life,&#8221; Limitless co-founder and \u2060CEO Dan Siroker said \u200cin a blog post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Limitless did not disclose financial details of the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Earlier this week, Meta hired \u200dlongtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/apple\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> design executive Alan Dye, a move widely seen as sharpening its focus on next-generation devices. Meta plans to use Limitless&#8217; technical capabilities as part of \u200bits development of next-generation AI-enabled wearables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Meta currently has partnerships with \u200cEssilorLuxottica brands Ray-Ban and Oakley to make AI-powered smart glasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited that Limitless will be joining Meta to help accelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables,\u201d a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Limitless, formerly known as Rewind, makes a wearable \u201cpendant\u201d that clips to clothing or a lanyard. The device \u2060records conversations, and can generate transcripts \u200band produce searchable summaries through a companion \u200bapp. It is part of a growing category of AI assistants designed to augment memory and everyday productivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Meta and \u200dLimitless will continue \u2060supporting existing users, but the company will stop selling devices to new customers, Limitless said. Existing users will be asked to \u2060accept revised privacy terms to maintain service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Limitless has raised more than $33 million from investors \u200cincluding Sam Altman and A16z.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Echo Wang in \u200cNew York; Editing by Matthew Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Echo Wang Dec 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Meta (META) has acquired AI-wearables startup Limitless, maker of a pendant-style&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,168347,1282,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-332878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-limitless","12":"tag-meta","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}