Replika founder launches Wabi multiplayer personal AI assistant
Original title: Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Wabi 2.0 builds apps inside shared threads after email connection and is free while more funding talks continue.
Eugenia Kuyda, who left Replika as CEO and founded Wabi, launched Wabi for all users on Monday as a messenger-style personal AI assistant. Users keep separate agent threads for tasks and goals; connecting email automatically creates starter threads and apps, and agents decide which apps to build. Shared threads act as group chats with scoped access to email, calendar or bank details, and Kuyda said everyone in a chat can see when personal information is requested. Wabi is SOC 2 compliant, runs in the cloud with most data stored in the United States, is free for now, and is in talks to raise more funds.
- Wabi earlier raised a $20 million pre-seed and was first described as a social mini-app platform.
- Kuyda says access is scoped to individual chats.
- The company has not settled on a business model.
- Kuyda positions Wabi against single-thread assistants Muse and Instinct.
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Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.
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