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Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

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Why This Matters

Meta's development of an AI-powered pendant signifies its ongoing efforts to innovate in wearable technology and AI integration. This move aims to revive interest in AI wearables, despite past challenges, and expand Meta's hardware ecosystem with new devices like glasses and a business subscription service. The initiative highlights Meta's strategic focus on blending AI with everyday accessories to enhance user experience and enterprise solutions.

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In Brief

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.

This device would presumably build on the work of Limitless, an AI device startup that Meta acquired 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, or perhaps because they just weren’t that useful. But companies like OpenAI aren’t giving up.

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 in the first quarter of this year.

TechCrunch has reached out to Meta for comment.