Meta Memo Outlines Ambitious Hardware Plans, Including New AI Pendant

Meta Platforms plans to start testing an AI pendant in the next year as part of an ambitious roadmap for wearable devices aimed at reversing the huge losses in its hardware division.

An internal memo describing the roadmap, reviewed by The Information, also lays out plans to significantly expand its selection of AI glasses and to add a business-focused service called “Wearables for Work.” The memo, from Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of wearables, says the strategy is in part to drive more use of Meta’s AI models and products such as subscription versions of its apps and a consumer AI agent it is developing called Hatch.