Wabi pivots to a personal agent that builds apps inside chat

Wabi announced Wabi 2.0 on September 28, repositioning itself from a prompt-based app builder into a personal AI messenger that generates interfaces on demand inside a chat. The app is currently available only by invite code.

Founder Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, described Wabi 2.0 as a "personal agent that does stuff for you and builds the interface you need in the moment" — for example, a calorie tracker or lifting log living in a health-themed thread.

The pivot comes as agent products like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, and as OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT's plug-ins into app-like interfaces at its DevDay on September 29. Kuyda argues chat-only agents bury history and tasks in one endless scroll, and that the strongest agent combines conversation with software. How the product performs for real users remains to be seen.