Meta’s latest acquisition suggests hardware plans beyond glasses and headsets

Meta has acquired Limitless, the maker of an AI-powered “Pendant,” to work on building consumer hardware for the enterprise, the startup announced via a YouTube video and blog post. Until now, Meta has focused on selling VR headsets and AI smart glasses. The company now appears interested in diversifying.

“Meta recently announced a new vision to bring personal superintelligence to everyone and a key part of that vision is creating incredible AI-powered wearable devices. We share that vision and will join Meta to help bring our shared vision to life,” said Dan Siroker, CEO of Limitless, in the post announcing the acquisition.

Limitless’ first product was Rewind, office productivity software that recorded everything you did on your computer and turned it into a searchable database that you interacted with via a chatbot. The company then expanded into hardware with Pendant, essentially a clip-on Bluetooth microphone that applies the same concept (privacy concerns be damned) to the things you say or hear throughout the day.

The company plans to support its existing Pendant customers “for at least a year” but will no longer sell the wearable in the future. Current customers will be able to access all of Pendant’s features without having to pay a subscription, although Limitless says availability will vary by region. If you have data stored with Limitless and do not want to keep your pendant, you can now also export or delete your data if you wish.

Wearable AI devices focused on audio recording have become a common form factor, mainly because they rely on two things that AI models do quite well: transcribing audio into text and summarizing it. Meta dipping its toes into space makes sense, if only because not everyone will want to wear glasses to gain the benefits of an AI assistant. Amazon acquired a wearable AI company called Bee in July 2025, presumably with similar intentions.

Add to that Meta’s recent hiring of former Apple design chief Alan Dye, and you can start to imagine where things could go. In the future, the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses and Ray-Ban Meta Display could be two entries into a broader range of AI-powered wearables.