Meta is growing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to begin testing within the subsequent yr, in line with a memo viewed by The Information.
This gadget would presumably construct on the work of Limitless, an AI gadget startup that Meta acquired on the finish of 2025. The startup made an AI pendant that customers might connect to their shirt or put on as a necklace to report their conversations. On the time, Meta stated the acquisition would permit it to “speed up our work to construct AI-enabled wearables.”
Earlier AI wearables have did not catch on with shoppers — maybe as a consequence of privateness considerations and tone-deaf advertising, or maybe as a result of they simply weren’t that helpful. However firms like OpenAI aren’t giving up.
The memo additionally reportedly states that the corporate is planning to broaden its lineup of AI glasses and launch a enterprise subscription known as Wearables for Work. With all these deliberate gadgets, Meta is seemingly hoping to reverse the fortunes of its hardware-focused Actuality Labs division, which misplaced $4 billion within the first quarter of this yr.
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