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OpenAI is developing a high-end smart speaker with moving parts to feel more lifelike, priced over $300, designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio and aimed at replacing smartphones.
Bloomberg reports OpenAI's upcoming smart speaker will be donut-shaped, made of premium metal, and priced between $300-$400. The device, developed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, is expected to launch in 2027.
Friend has re-launched its AI pendant with a speaker that now talks back to users, priced at $249 (double the original $129).
Illume Labs offers a personalized health companion that you can text 24/7, accessible via Product Hunt.
Giggle Academy introduces Mai, a new AI companion that changes forms to engage children in play, chat, and learning, making sessions feel like an adventure.
An AI Augmented Reality companion malfunctions during a Japanese lesson, causing an unexpected incident.
A New Yorker feature explores how an Amazon Alexa device, named Sapphire by the user, becomes an intimate family member, providing companionship and support to a mother, while her teenage daughter questions the environmental and emotional implications.
OpenAI is developing a screenless smart speaker with AI capabilities and moving parts, designed as a humanlike companion that integrates with ChatGPT, according to a Bloomberg report.
ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling custom AI companion features in Doubao and Qwen due to new Chinese rules targeting humanlike emotional interaction in AI services, with user backlash highlighting the emotional attachment these products had fostered.
Meta has revived Facebook Creator Studio as a standalone AI companion app, featuring an AI assistant that provides performance insights, tailored growth recommendations, and automated reply drafting for creators.
Facebook reimagines its Creator Studio as a standalone AI companion app, integrating an AI assistant to help creators with content ideas, performance analysis, and audience engagement, aiming to compete with TikTok and YouTube.
Prism is an AI companion for macOS, launched on Product Hunt.
Olo is billed as the world's first AI style companion for guys, helping users dress smarter.
A solo developer is building Scout, an AI companion that runs entirely on-device without cloud or account, and is seeking feedback before beta release.
The developer released Persistent Sage, an AI companion app for the Microsoft App Store that runs locally, supports custom personalities and encrypted API keys, and introduces 'Memory Anchor' for persistent memories across sessions. A beta version is available for feedback before the v1.0 release.
The article presents a published architecture (research paper) for AI companions with persistent state, internal need variables, and memory scoring, seeking investment. The system, PHI // DRIFT, includes 18k+ lines of code and a real-time telemetry dashboard.
A preprint on SSRN presents PHI // DRIFT, a cognitive middleware architecture for AI companions with persistent internal state and salience-weighted memory retrieval, claiming 14.8% more context per prompt versus cosine-only RAG on consumer hardware.
A developer announces Milo, an AI companion that learns from interactions and stores personality and memory in a local encrypted file, seeking beta testers among former Replika users.
IrisGo, backed by Andrew Ng, launches an AI desktop companion that learns user workflows and automates repetitive tasks on-device for privacy, targeting knowledge workers.
Tether is an AI companion that brings lifelike interactions to your messages, launching on ProductHunt.