Berlin -based AI gaming start -up CEO and co -founder, Fabin Kambri, believes that existing AI colleagues in the market have been exploited and developed to isolate users through one -to -one relationship with AI chat boats.
“It feels as if it fuel the epidemic of loneliness, instead of providing more entertainment and providing users with the opportunity to improve their lives,” Kambri told Tech Crunch.
He says the future of AI’s colleagues is about shared experiences that strengthen real -world bonds.
Born Flagship AI Product is an app where users can pick up mini games, play mini games, and can be designated with a beautiful virtual pet. Penguin. Think of it as a productive AI -powered synagogue or a nopate, but needs to cooperate with another human being like a friend or romantic partner. This is a freemium app where users can pay for additional features for the peng pass. And when it has reached more than 15 million consumers globally, according to Borne, the company has not revealed how many of these users are paying – an important question for any consumer membership business.
The idea behind the penguin is that the social aspect turns pets into a joint venture, which helps consumers engage in both AI’s role and their real -life relationships. Now, the Borne Penguin is ready to release new roles for the app and launch another social AI product designed for youth.
The article that arises that AI’s colleagues should entertain and include a social element that has attracted the attention of investors. Startup, previously known as Sili, has collected a series of $ 15 million, which has its total funding is $ 25 million, with investors including Excel, Tennessee, and Laton Ventures.
Thesis did not wander too far from when was born, a social media app for young youths revolves around giving and receiving praise. At this time, Kambri described Sally as a “place for young people to re -discover social interactions in various sports methods”. The axis of AI colleagues born leads to the same principle of digital interaction more positive and socially engaged.
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According to Kambri, with fresh funds, he plans to launch new roles on the penguin app generated, including another “cute” digital partner who will double as a learning partner. Startup is also opening an office in New York later this year, focusing on marketing and AI research. This research will include improving its character engine so that every new AI friend can form a permanent personality, remember the conversation, and can increase the user as well. Enrico Dal Ri, head of the finance -born finance, will lead to the company’s expansion in the United States
Borne is also preparing to launch another AI social products, especially for young people aged 16 to 21 – while children aged 13 can use apps. Kambri noted that Borne mainly relies on Openian Generative AI models, but has made additional protective layers.
The new product is still in stealth mode, but Kamberry says it will allow users to “create and engage in culturally related AI colleagues who feel like real friends.” For example, the boats can send you a tricktok videos or Instagram rail based on the content that is already used on social media, he said.
Kambri added that he expects the new product to be “network impact” because users share their creations on social media.
“We are not sure that the current chat boot is the last form of landscape how AI’s friends and users are done,” Kambri said. “There will be ways to enter a platform for consumers’ social AI and to engage with users rather than text a boot that may have been created by me or someone else.”
For Excel’s partner Luka Bocio, the appeal is in the desire to create a new social category built around emotionally intelligent AI characters.
“We are really impressed with the team’s ability to produce charts topping apps and their impressive product vision, and we look forward to continuing our contribution with them because they are on a global scale,” said Bocio.