{"slug": "meta-s-leaked-memo-reveals-ai-pendant-supersensing-glasses-and-enterprise", "title": "Meta's leaked memo reveals AI pendant, supersensing glasses, and enterprise wearables strategy", "summary": "Meta plans to expand its smart glasses lineup and internally test a new AI pendant by spring 2027, according to an internal memo from Vice President of Wearables Alex Himel. The devices will run on Meta's Muse Spark AI model and an unreleased agent called Hatch, as the company targets corporate customers with a \"Wearables for Work\" offering. The strategy aims to stem losses at Reality Labs while pushing adoption of Meta's AI models and products.", "body_md": "# Meta's leaked memo reveals AI pendant, supersensing glasses, and enterprise wearables strategy\n\n## Key Points\n\n- Meta plans to expand its smart glasses lineup and internally test a new AI pendant, according to an internal memo.\n- The devices will run on Meta's AI model Muse Spark and an unreleased AI agent called Hatch.\n- Meta is also going after corporate customers with a \"Wearables for Work\" offering and plans to add more eyewear brands to its lineup.\n\n**Meta wants to test an AI companion device internally next year and broaden its range of AI-powered smart glasses.**\n\nThat's according to an internal memo from Alex Himel, Meta's Vice President of Wearables, which [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-memo-outlines-ambitious-hardware-plans-including-new-ai-pendant) was able to review. The strategy aims to stop the massive losses at the Reality Labs hardware division while pushing adoption of Meta's AI models and products.\n\nHimel lays out three pillars in the memo: a new AI pendant, an expanded smart glasses lineup, and an enterprise offering called \"Wearables for Work.\" The last one targets corporate customers who'd be more willing to pay for devices with industry-specific features.\n\nThe devices will run on Meta's latest AI model, [Muse Spark](https://the-decoder.com/metas-muse-spark-is-its-first-frontier-model-and-its-first-without-open-weights/), and an unreleased [AI agent called \"Hatch.\"](https://the-decoder.com/google-and-meta-race-to-build-personal-ai-agents-as-anthropic-and-openai-pull-further-ahead/)\n\n## AI pendant headed for internal testing by spring 2027\n\nThe memo doesn't include specs for the planned AI pendant, according to The Information, but the device could have a camera. Internal testing—known as \"dogfooding\" in industry jargon—is set to start in spring 2027. Meta already acquired the [AI pendant startup Limitless](https://www.limitless.ai/) last year.\n\nBeyond the pendant, Meta is expanding its glasses lineup to include so-called \"supersensing\" models. Super Sensing keeps cameras and sensors running for hours at a time, letting the AI assistant track what happened throughout the day. Meta AI could notice when you've forgotten your keys or remind you to pick up an ingredient for dinner.\n\nSo far, Meta's glasses lineup has been limited to Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta through a partnership with EssilorLuxottica. More brands and styles are coming to reach a wider audience and improve gross margins. EssilorLuxottica reported in February that more than 7 million Meta-powered smart glasses sold in 2025.\n\nDaily use of AI-powered smart glasses has tripled year over year, [according to Zuckerberg](https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2026/q1/META-Q1-2026-Prepared-Remarks.pdf), who calls it \"one of the fastest-growing categories of consumer electronics ever.\" Himel has set a target of ten million wearable devices sold in the second half of 2026.\n\n## Software subscriptions to offset hardware losses\n\nHimel wants to hit 6.8 million monthly active wearable users by year's end. New products and sales in more countries are the levers to get there, according to the memo.\n\nMeta also aims to make money on software. This week, the company rolled out a [two-tier subscription for its AI chatbot Meta AI](https://the-decoder.com/meta-one-zuckerberg-finally-puts-a-price-tag-on-all-that-ai-spending/), available through Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and soon on its smart glasses.\n\nMeta One Plus ($7.99) and Meta One Premium ($19.99) follow the same playbook as OpenAI and Google: users pay for more compute, longer model reasoning, and more image and video generation. \"All of our glasses are designed to easily update to use our newest AI models and features,\" Zuckerberg said. Meta is also building a developer platform where third parties can upload apps for the wearables.\n\nMeta isn't alone in its AI hardware ambitions. OpenAI acquired io Products, co-founded by ex-Apple designer Jony Ive, for $6.5 billion and reportedly has more than 200 people [working on a family of AI devices](https://the-decoder.com/openai-reportedly-walked-away-from-apple-to-focus-on-building-its-own-ai-hardware-instead/), including a smart speaker in the $200 to $300 range and [possibly a smartphone](https://the-decoder.com/openais-first-hardware-play-might-be-a-phone-that-replaces-your-app-grid-with-an-agent-task-stream/). Google has announced smart glasses in [partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm for this fall](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/android-xr-io-2026/).\n\n```\nAI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive \"AI Radar\" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\n```\n\n[The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-memo-outlines-ambitious-hardware-plans-including-new-ai-pendant)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-leaked-memo-reveals-ai-pendant-supersensing-glasses-and-enterprise", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/metas-leaked-memo-reveals-ai-pendant-supersensing-glasses-and-enterprise-wearables-strategy/", "published_at": "2026-05-30 08:37:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-30 09:17:26.088546+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "ai-startups", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Meta", "Alex Himel", "Reality Labs", "Muse Spark", "Hatch", "The Information", "Wearables for Work"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-leaked-memo-reveals-ai-pendant-supersensing-glasses-and-enterprise", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-leaked-memo-reveals-ai-pendant-supersensing-glasses-and-enterprise.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-leaked-memo-reveals-ai-pendant-supersensing-glasses-and-enterprise.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-leaked-memo-reveals-ai-pendant-supersensing-glasses-and-enterprise.jsonld"}}