Meta AI Pendant Development Revealed in Leaked Internal Memo

Meta AI Pendant Development Revealed in Leaked Internal Memo

Quick Reads

• Meta is developing an AI pendant it plans to start testing within the next year.
• The device builds directly on Meta’s acquisition of Limitless, completed in late 2025.
• A leaked internal memo also outlines an expanded AI glasses lineup from the company.
• Meta plans a business subscription called “Wearables for Work” targeting enterprise users.
• Reality Labs, Meta’s hardware division, lost $4 billion in the first quarter of 2026 alone.

Meta AI pendant plans are no longer secret. An internal memo viewed by The Information reveals that Meta is actively developing an AI-powered pendant and plans to begin testing it within the next year. The device builds on Meta’s acquisition of Limitless, the AI pendant startup it purchased at the end of 2025.

Limitless, before the acquisition, made a wearable device that users could clip to their shirt or wear as a necklace. The device recorded and transcribed conversations in real time. Limitless CEO Dan Siroker had previously said Meta’s vision for personal superintelligence through wearables aligned with what his company was building.

The same leaked memo also outlines an expanded AI glasses lineup from Meta. Additionally, it describes plans for an enterprise subscription tier called Wearables for Work. This subscription would reframe Meta’s wearables as productivity tools rather than consumer gadgets. Think meeting transcription, ambient note-taking, and hands-free access to workplace tools, all delivered through hardware instead of software.

The Meta AI pendant enters a category with a troubled history, however. Humane’s AI Pin launched in 2024 to devastating reviews and was effectively dead within a year. HP later acquired the startup’s assets for just $116 million. Friend, another AI pendant startup, spent over $1 million on subway advertisements and still struggled to find users.

Nevertheless, Meta’s position is fundamentally different. The company already commands roughly 82% of the smart glasses market and sold over seven million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025. Therefore, the pendant enters an established hardware ecosystem, not a brand-new category with no existing demand.

Privacy, however, remains a major unresolved challenge. Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses have already faced lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny for how they handle footage from built-in cameras. A pendant that records conversations raises those same concerns in an even more intimate form factor. According to The Next Web’s full reporting on the leaked memo, the EU’s ongoing DMA enforcement and GDPR scrutiny could constrain where the device launches. Meta confirmed the Limitless acquisition, though details about the pendant’s final design remain undisclosed. Reality Labs has now lost more than $60 billion cumulatively. The pendant is one piece of a very large bet.