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If you spend hours on calls every day, background noise can quickly become a problem, and Anker has a solution. At IFA 2026, the company introduced the Soundcore Space 2 Pro, the first over-ear headphones powered by its Thus AI chip.
Designed to improve voice clarity without sacrificing music quality, the new headphones combine AI-powered call processing, upgraded active noise cancellation, and long battery life in a package aimed at commuters, remote workers, and frequent travelers.
Anker’s Thus chip debuted back in April inside the Liberty 5 Pro earbuds, and Anker has since expanded it across its lineup, including new sleep earbuds that mask snoring and track your heart rate.
How Thus AI chip cleans up your calls
Space 2 Pro runs on Thus, Anker’s neural-net chip that fuses processing and memory together for a serious computing boost over its previous flagship earbud chip. During calls, a 6-microphone array works with Thus to separate your voice from everything happening around you, using AI trained on massive audio datasets instead of the older rule-based filtering most headphones rely on.
For noise cancellation specifically, Anker bumps that up to 8 microphones, running Adaptive ANC 3.0 and processing over 384,000 noise signals every second. Anker claims that’s 1.5 times stronger than what the Space One Pro delivered, with testing showing a 54.8% improvement in the 20Hz to 2,000Hz range – the exact frequencies covering voices, keystrokes, and general office chatter.
Beyond calls, HearID 5.0 builds a personalized sound profile by testing your hearing directly, and you get two EQ presets to choose from, along with LDAC support for higher resolution audio.
Soundcore Space 2 Pro specs, price, and availability
Battery life comes in at 60 hours with ANC off, or 30 hours with it running. Turn on LDAC alongside ANC, and that number drops to 25 hours. But only 5 minutes of charging buys you 8 more hours of listening.
The headphones also support spatial audio, multipoint connections, Bluetooth 6.1, and 20 built-in voice commands, plus wear detection, a feature the Space One Pro never had. These headphones will be available on September 22 for $200 in Midnight Grey, Jet Black, and Linen White across the US, EU, and UK.
