Meta is growing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to begin testing within the subsequent yr, in accordance with a memo viewed by The Information.
This gadget would presumably construct on the work of Limitless, an AI device 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 document 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 customers — maybe as a consequence of privacy concerns and tone-deaf marketingor maybe as a result of they just weren’t that useful. However corporations like OpenAI aren’t giving up.
The memo additionally reportedly states that the corporate is planning to develop its lineup of AI glasses and launch a enterprise subscription referred to as Wearables for Work. With all these deliberate gadgets, Meta is outwardly hoping to reverse the fortunes of its hardware-focused Actuality Labs division, which lost $4 billion within the first quarter of this yr.
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