Meta is reportedly developing an AI-powered pendant, building on its acquisition of AI device startup Limitless, as part of its plans to expand wearable AI hardware.
Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.
# Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant | TechCrunch
Source: [https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/30/meta-is-reportedly-developing-an-ai-pendant/](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/30/meta-is-reportedly-developing-an-ai-pendant/)
Meta is developing an AI\-powered pendant that it plans to start testing in the next year, according to a memo[viewed by The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-memo-outlines-ambitious-hardware-plans-including-new-ai-pendant)\.
This device would presumably build on the work of Limitless, an[AI device startup that Meta acquired](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/meta-acquires-ai-device-startup-limitless/)at the end of 2025\. The startup made an AI pendant that users could attach to their shirt or wear as a necklace to record their conversations\. At the time, Meta said the acquisition would allow it to “accelerate our work to build AI\-enabled wearables\.”
Earlier AI wearables have failed to catch on with consumers — perhaps due to[privacy concerns and tone\-deaf marketing](https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/27/ai-startup-friend-spent-more-than-1m-on-all-those-subway-ads/), or perhaps because they[just weren’t that useful](https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/humanes-ai-pin-is-dead-as-hp-buys-startups-assets-for-116m/)\. But companies like OpenAI[aren’t giving up](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/openai-and-jony-ive-may-be-struggling-to-figure-out-their-ai-device/)\.
The memo also reportedly states that the company is planning to expand its lineup of AI glasses and launch a business subscription called Wearables for Work\. With all these planned devices, Meta is apparently hoping to reverse the fortunes of its hardware\-focused Reality Labs division, which[lost $4 billion](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/meta-is-still-burning-money-on-ar-vr/)in the first quarter of this year\.
TechCrunch has reached out to Meta for comment\.
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