Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

According to a memo obtained by The Information and reported by TechCrunch on May 30, Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that users can attach to clothing or wear as a necklace. Testing is expected to begin within the next year. The device builds directly on Limitless, the AI wearable startup Meta acquired in late 2025, whose pendant recorded conversations for AI processing.

The announcement sits within a broader hardware push at Meta. Alongside the pendant, the company plans to expand its AI glasses lineup and launch a “Wearables for Work” subscription service. This signals that Meta views wearables as a strategic layer in its AI ecosystem rather than a standalone product — the hardware serves as a persistent data capture and inference point throughout the day.

Context matters here: earlier AI wearables from other companies failed to reach mainstream adoption, often due to unclear use cases or privacy concerns that surfaced after launch rather than before. Meta’s acquisition-first approach to the hardware side — bringing in a team with shipping experience — suggests lessons learned from those earlier attempts. The B2B positioning with a workplace subscription tier is also a shift from the consumer-first framing that contributed to some earlier failures.

For product managers working in productivity software, enterprise tools, or any category that competes for user attention during working hours, the wearable trajectory is worth tracking. If ambient AI capture devices reach significant adoption, the assumptions around when and how users interact with software products will shift in ways that current product designs do not account for.