Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago

Eugenia Kuyda’s newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.

AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch

AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet

Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who’s who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.

Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy

The AI lab’s personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.

Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation

Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying ‘we’re just getting started.’ The company is now valued at $10 billion.

Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users’ behalf.

Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race

The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.

Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies

Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little to no editing in our testing.

Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign

Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.

Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to

Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.