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Eugenia Kuyda launches Wabi 2.0, a multiplayer personal AI assistant

Wabi 2.0 expands on the original personal AI platform with auto‑generated apps and group‑chat threads.

By Felo News Desk · Published Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:56:48 GMT

On Monday, Eugenia Kuyda officially launched Wabi 2.0, a multiplayer personal AI assistant that operates as a messenger‑style app, according to TechCrunch.

What happened

Wabi 2.0 lets users maintain multiple "agentic" threads dedicated to distinct tasks or long‑term goals. Within each thread, users can build custom apps—for example, a weight‑loss tracker in a health thread or a local‑events guide in a family thread. The assistant automatically creates a set of starter threads and apps when linked to a user’s email, and users can request additional custom apps or new threads at any time.

What the reports add

TechCrunch notes that the original Wabi launch last year was described as a social platform where users could share mini‑apps built with prompts. Over the past year, Kuyda said the team observed that people prefer personalized software but often lack the time or desire to build it themselves. Wabi 2.0 addresses this by having the AI decide which apps to create automatically. The outlet also contrasts Wabi’s multi‑threaded, multiplayer design with competitors such as Instinct and Muse, which rely on a single‑thread conversation that can become unwieldy as context grows.

What was said

"It’s doing what Instinct and Muse do, but it also has all these apps, which helps users do more stuff," Kuyda told TechCrunch.

She added, "It’s not just everything in one single thread like with Instinct and Muse, where you get buried in the information that it sends you everyday. Single thread experiences, if you think about it, get worse over time because it’s just so much context in one endless conversation."

How it came about

Kuyda first presented a chatbot called IO at TechCrunch Disrupt twelve years ago, a lifestyle concierge that pre‑dated modern large language models. IO was the first product of her startup Luka, which later became the AI companion company Replika. After stepping down as Replika’s CEO last year, Kuyda founded Wabi, aiming to bring her early vision of a personalized AI assistant to market now that the underlying technology has caught up.

Key facts

Wabi 2.0 launched on Monday as a multiplayer personal AI assistant (techcrunch.com)
The app creates multiple task‑specific threads and can auto‑generate custom apps when linked to email (techcrunch.com)
Kuyda says Wabi’s multi‑threaded design avoids the context overload of single‑thread assistants like Instinct and Muse (techcrunch.com)
Wabi originated from Kuyda’s earlier startup Luka, which later became Replika (techcrunch.com)