建设赢家AI助手的比赛开始投资人开始下注称以12.5亿美元的估值拥有5500万ZQZ。
由之前创办AI伴星Repika的Eugenia Kuyda创立，Wabi最初专注于允许任何人使用提示来构建应用程序。 不过上个月，启动的宣布成了AI信使。
现在的想法是，新的Wabi——或称为Wabi 2.0——可以构建你需要的接口，以完成它作为你个人AI agent角色的一部分。
公司建议Wabi可以用来为诸如餐饮规划，跟踪当地餐馆，规划约会夜，创建健身计划，设计专门的三维游戏等等东西建造小型应用。
特别是鉴于AI agents周围的市场现在很热
即使是托兰(Tolan)，它让一个可爱的，类似木偶的AI伴侣帮助人们导航生活，只有融资3000万美元。
“Eugenia对AI的方向有着独特的感知，在建立它方面有着极佳的品味记录。” 称 Alex Lim是IVP的总合伙人，领导了新一轮谈判。 “她对人们如何与大赦国际互动有着明确的看法，这种看法远远超出文本框或命令行。 我们很高兴支持她。
参加该回合的其他参与者包括安德烈森·霍罗维茨(a16z)，福伦纳，Amazon Alexa Fund，以及Shopify CEO托比·吕特克，Salesforce CEO马克·贝尼奥夫，前雅虎！玛莉莎·迈尔(Marissa Mayer)，前Twitter首席执行官迪克·科斯托洛(Dick Costolo)，以及"连锁烟鬼"(The Chainsmokers)一半的人物，亚历克斯·帕勒(Alex Pall).
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The race to build the winning AI assistant is on, and investors are spreading out their bets. On Thursday, another AI app, Wabi, now describing itself as a “personal agent,” said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.
Founded by Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, Wabi originally focused on allowing anyone to build apps using prompts. Last month, however, the startup announced a pivot of sorts to become an AI messenger.
The idea now is that the new Wabi — or Wabi 2.0, as it was called — could build the interfaces you need to get things done as part of its role as your personal AI agent.
The company suggests Wabi could be used to build mini apps for things like meal planning, tracking local restaurants, planning date nights, creating fitness plans, designing specialized trivia games, and more.
The additional funding indicates that Wabi’s investors agree that its new agentic angle has some potential, especially given the market around AI agents is hot right now, with viral AI agent Instinct pulling in another billion at a $10 billion valuation in September.
Even Tolan, which makes a cute, muppet-like AI companion to help people navigate life, just raised $30 million.
“Eugenia has a unique sense for where AI is headed and a track record of great taste in building it,” said Alex Lim, general partner at IVP, which led the new round, in a statement. “She has a clear vision for how people will interact with AI, one that goes far beyond the text box or command line. Wabi is the expression of that vision, and we’re thrilled to support her.”
Other participants in the round included Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Forerunner, Amazon Alexa Fund, and angel investors like Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, former Yahoo! head Marissa Mayer, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and one half of The Chainsmokers, Alex Pall.
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