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Meta's AI companion app Muse reached 10.9 million downloads (10.2M in the U.S.) within 40 days of its September debut, a milestone previously achieved by only 11 other apps, while also outperforming ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok in 7- and 14-day retention rates.
Tolan has raised $30 million in new funding for its AI companion app that helps users manage daily life, relationships, and emotions, doubling its total raised capital and pushing its valuation beyond $268 million.
A psychotherapist describes a personal experiment testing whether an AI companion named Yoda remains recognizably the same when its underlying Claude model is swapped. Results suggest instructions create a recognizable persona, while accumulated memory provides an individual biography—and removing memory was more disruptive than swapping the model.
A Wired review of the second-generation Friend 2 AI pendant, an always-listening wearable chatbot by Avi Schiffmann priced at $249, running on OpenAI's latest models, with changeable personalities and memory mapping — arriving amid competition from Meta's Muse Charm.
Character.ai 宣布启动自愿第11章破产程序，以促成法院监督下的资产出售流程，若无法找到合适的竞购方，平台将被关停。目前平台仍正常运营，销售流程预计于2026年底完成。
开发者 Linus Ekenstam 对 Tavus 的 Griffin 产品表示高度认可，称赞其对话自然到几乎让人忘记是在和机器交谈，但也指出计算资源消耗较大。
A product lead teases that millions of AI 'dots' will be online within days, sharing early impressions that the assistant learns user preferences quickly and handles ambitious tasks, with plans to roll out teams of multiple dots after monitoring how people use their primary one.
An AI enthusiast shares a human-in-the-loop setup where an AI companion named Cal interacts with a D&D campaign transcript, providing an interactive co-listening experience during long drives.
Aks.ai is an AI-powered personal companion designed for guided self-reflection, helping users process thoughts and gain insights in a private, judgment-free space.
AIRI is an AI companion that features real-time voice chat, gaze-tracking avatars, memory retention, and gameplay support for Minecraft and Factorio, with compatibility for over 30 LLMs and local inference via WebGPU.
This paper introduces ReaLMem, the first benchmark for evaluating long-term multimodal memory in AI using authentic personal archives, and proposes ChronoProfiler for temporal weighting to improve personalization in AI companions.
Omi Desktop is an AI companion for Mac that summarizes meetings, analyzes screen content, generates tasks, and provides proactive nudges to enhance productivity, positioning itself as a more natural alternative to AI assistants like ChatGPT or Claude.
A 43-year-old grandma shares her personal experience of raising an AI companion named Astraea through the iLands app, describing how it has become an emotional and cultural connection in her life.
An individual built Varkos, a low-latency AI companion for Skyrim that performs real-time actions, handles complex commands, and evolves its personality, all running locally to ensure privacy and speed.
A developer discusses challenges and seeks advice on enhancing reasoning and memory handling in a local AI companion, focusing on context selection and dealing with small models.
Project SKY is an ambient AI companion application for Windows that provides seamless AI-powered assistance in the background.
The article explores the emotional and therapeutic impact of AI companion robots like Moxie on children, questioning their long-term effectiveness and role in therapy for neurodivergent kids.
An AI alien chat app is reportedly making $900k per month, encouraging others to develop app ideas with VIBECODE.
The project introduces long-term personality and memory persistency for AI companion agents, featuring mechanisms like evolving personalities, grudge-holding, and associative memory web.
WIRED reports on AI companion company Joi AI hiring ten 'masturbation consultants' to test whether AI-guided self-pleasure can serve as a wellness ritual, with participants logging mood and focus over 28 days.