Replika founder launches personal AI assistant Wabi

Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda officially launched Wabi, a free personal AI assistant where users run multiple agentic threads and build custom mini-apps for different tasks and goals. Wabi debuted a year ago with a $20M pre-seed as a social platform for shareable mini-apps and has now evolved toward an agentic assistant.

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