Meta is reportedly developing an AI-powered pendant designed to record and summarize conversations, according to a memo seen by The Information. The device could enter testing within the next year, suggesting the company is broadening its hardware ambitions beyond smart glasses.
The reported pendant appears to build on work from Limitless, an AI device startup Meta acquired at the end of 2025. Limitless had created a pendant that users could wear around their neck or clip to clothing to capture conversations. When Meta announced that acquisition, it said the deal would help speed up its efforts to develop AI-enabled wearables.
The latest report indicates Meta sees continued promise in that category, even though earlier consumer AI gadgets have struggled to gain traction. Some products have faced criticism over privacy concerns and awkward marketing, while others have been dismissed as lacking clear usefulness. Despite those setbacks, major technology companies have continued to invest in the space.
Meta has already made a substantial push into wearables through its Ray-Ban smart glasses line, and the memo reportedly says the company wants to expand that product family further. It also reportedly mentions a new business subscription called Wearables for Work, which would suggest Meta is exploring enterprise use cases in addition to consumer devices.
The company’s hardware ambitions come as it tries to improve the performance of Reality Labs, its unit focused on augmented reality, virtual reality, and related devices. That division has remained expensive for Meta, and the memo reportedly frames the new products as part of a broader effort to reverse its fortunes. Reality Labs lost $4 billion in the first quarter of this year, according to the source material.
The idea of an AI pendant fits a wider industry trend toward always-on or near-always-on devices that can capture speech and use artificial intelligence to turn it into notes, summaries, or other useful outputs. But that vision has repeatedly collided with user skepticism about who is being recorded, how the data is stored, and whether the devices deliver enough practical value to justify wearing them.
Meta’s reported plan also arrives as rivals continue to explore their own AI hardware bets. OpenAI, for example, has been linked to efforts in the same broad category, though those products have also faced development challenges. The ongoing interest from large companies suggests that the market for AI-native hardware remains experimental, even after several high-profile launches have failed to become mainstream.
TechCrunch said it reached out to Meta for comment. The company has not publicly confirmed the pendant plans, and the details described so far come from the internal memo reviewed by The Information.
For now, the reported pendant adds another sign that Meta is still betting heavily on consumer-facing AI devices, even as the category remains unproven.