TL;DRA leaked Meta memo confirms an AI pendant entering testing next year. The company also plans “Wearables for Work” and expanded AI glasses.
Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing within the next year, according to an internal memo viewed by The Information. The device builds on the Limitless acquisition Meta completed at the end of 2025. Limitless made a pendant that users could clip to their shirt or wear as a necklace to record and transcribe conversations.
The memo also outlines plans to expand Meta’s AI glasses lineup and launch a business subscription called Wearables for Work. The enterprise tier would position Meta’s hardware as a productivity tool rather than a consumer novelty. Reality Labs, Meta’s hardware division, lost $4 billion in Q1 2026 alone.
The AI pendant category has a troubled history. Humane’s AI Pin launched in 2024 to withering reviews and was effectively dead within a year, with HP acquiring the startup’s assets for $116 million. Friend, another AI pendant startup, spent more than $1 million on subway advertisements and struggled to find users. Neither device offered enough utility to justify wearing an additional gadget.
Meta’s approach is different in one important respect. It already has a wearables business that works. Meta sold more than seven million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 and commands roughly 82% of the smart glasses market. The pendant would be a second form factor in an ecosystem that has proven consumer demand, not a standalone product betting on a category that does not yet exist.
