Meta Acquires AI Wearable Company Limitless

Meta is acquiring AI wearable startup Limitless, maker of a pendant that records conversations and generates summaries. "We're excited that Limitless will be joining Meta to help accelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. CNBC reports: Limitless CEO Dan Siroker revealed the deal on Friday via a corporate blog post but did not disclose the financial terms. "Meta recently announced a new vision to bring personal superintelligence to everyone and a key part of that vision is building incredible AI-enabled wearables," Siroker said in the post and an accompanying video. "We share this vision and we'll be joining Meta to help bring our shared vision to life."

Zuckerberg needs to waste more money

[locater16]

Quick, we've got a new trend to chase, to the Zuckmobile!

From TFA

[Powercntrl]

Limitless makes a small, AI-powered pendant that can record conversations and generate summaries.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's an app for that.

But hey, their investors probably made their money getting bought out by Facebook, so mission accomplished I guess.

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[ianbnet]

Without financial terms disclosed I wouldn't assume this is good for investors :/

Gen Z will just want summaries

[TJHook3r]

Ideal for anyone whose eyes glaze over when conversations stretch past the two minute mark - they don't need to pretend to be busy or hide in a cupboard, they can simply let a wearable do the listening

Acquire-a-hire

[EvilSS]

Zuck either wants their software or hardware team, not the product. They already shut down sales, are giving away the subscription services for free to existing users, and promise "at least one year" of support, which of course means "exactly one year then we brick your gadget". Well if you are in a now-supported country. If you are in Brazil, China, the European Union, Israel, South Korea, Turkey, or the United Kingdom them you have already been bricked and have until December 19th to download your data a

\o/

[easyTree]

A shame Google didn't buy it then it would have been shut down. There's still hope, I suppose.

I've been a fan of Limitless

[93 Escort Wagon]

I especially like their fries and their salad bowls.

Just nope....

[bsdetector101]

maker of a pendant that records conversations and generates summaries

more lies

[aRTeeNLCH]

"Meta recently announced a new vision to bring personal superintelligence to everyone and a key part of that vision is building incredible AI-enabled wearables," Siroker said

They may say that, but anyone with somewhat elevated intelligence understands to stay away from anything Meta, so I don't believe for one second that's a real vision. A hallucination, perhaps.

ORLY

[Suripat]

As usually, we must remember that humans corrupt everything. This will be more more like "Personal Eavesdropping", not "superintellingence" bs.