It’s been just a few short months since Meta unveiled its latest crop of AI-featuring wearable devices, and while the company has received positive feedback from these, Zuckerberg and friends obviously feel there’s more they can do.
Enter Limitless, a wearable AI device maker newly acquired by the social media/internet giant. The company could well use its tech to release a new type of wearable — one that goes around your neck rather than sitting on your skull.
Meta learns new limits
It can be argued that AI is hanging around humanity’s neck already like an exceedingly well-cooled albatross, but that’s not what the social media company is thinking about. It’s all about “bring[ing] personal superintelligence to everyone” by “building incredible AI-enabled wearables”, according to Limitless CEO Dan Siroker.
The deal, the terms of which are unknown at this time, could see Meta launching a pendant-style wearable of the type that Limitless markets. The device is intended to dangle from a user’s neck or clip onto their clothing (think the early days of the Fitbit), where it can record, transcribe, and summarise everyday conversations. We’re sure it won’t have any effect on attention spans and short-term memory among its users at all. Still, at least Meta gets a new tranche of user data to sift through.
As part of the deal, current Limitless users will continue to receive support and updates, but new devices will no longer be sold. It could be that we’ll see a suitably Meta-themed version of the dangling device adorning users the next time Zuckerberg hosts a Meta Connect event. We guess that we’ll see proper updates sometime in September 2026.
