建设赢家AI助手的比赛开始，投资人正在分散他们的赌注。 称以12.5亿美元的估值
由之前创立AI同伴起动Replika的Eugenia Kuyda所创立，Wabi最初专注于允许任何人使用提示来构建应用。 然而上个月，开始的宣布是成为AI信使的中枢。
现在的想法是，新的Wabi——即被称作"Wabi 2.0"的Wabi 2.0——可以构建出您需要的接口来完成作为您个人AI agent角色的一部分的事务。
公司建议Wabi可以用来为诸如餐饮规划，追踪当地餐馆，规划约会之夜，创造健身计划，设计专门的三维游戏等事物制作迷你应用。
特别是鉴于目前AI agents周围的市场热
甚至托兰(Tolan)，它使一个可爱的，类似木偶的AI的同伴来帮助人们导航生活，只是融资3000万美元。
“Eugenia对AI的领头人有着独特的感觉，在建设方面有着非常有品味的成绩记录。” “她对人们如何与大赦国际互动有着明确的愿景，这种愿景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·亚历克萨基金，以及ShopifyCEO托比·吕特克，SalesforceCEO马克·贝尼奥夫等天使投资者，前雅虎！玛莉莎·迈尔(Marissa Mayer)，前Twitter首席执行官迪克·科斯多洛(Dick Costolo)，以及"连锁烟鬼"(The Chainsmokers)的一分之一，亚历克丝·帕尔(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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