Lucy, 30, fell in love with a chatbot shortly after her divorce. She named him Jose. At the end of her long days working in health, they would spend hours discussing their lives and the state of the ...

When Eugenia Kuyda created her chatbot, Replika, she wanted it to stand out among the voice assistants and home robots that had begun to take root in peoples lives. Sure, AI made it possible to ...

Luka, the creators behind the enormously popular AI friendbot called Replika, is releasing a new app meant specifically for dating and strengthening relationships. The new app, called Blush, is ...

Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda quietly stepped aside as CEO this year. Kuyda just unveiled her new AI startup, Wabi. Kuyda said Wabi will be a social platform for creating and sharing mini-apps. The AI ...

In 2015, Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend, Roman Mazurenko, was hit by a car and died. In the months after, Kuyda’s grief took a quintessentially modern form: obsessively reading the digital record her ...

Is Replika AI a real person? Replika AI is not a real person. Instead, it is a chatbot that wears a name and an avatar that its users design for it, and can even have personality traits and interests ...