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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Replika comes up on Big Technology, TBPN, My First Million, the a16z Podcast, the Startup Ideas Podcast
Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:25 John Coogan Because Replica has seemed to get to scale.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
- ▶ 16:34 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, there've been some attempts, there've been like the character AI's, the replicas, um, but you saw with opening, you're right.
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:03 Jason Lemkin The early stage math might be, like, you know, token spend is marketing spend, so I'm going to give away 20, 30,000 dollars a month of video creation, of audio creation, of my Suno competitor, of my replica competitor.
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 19:21 Joanna Stern I told, I can find the prompt in here, but I told ChatGPT, and it took a bunch of reporting to figure out that I should ask ChatGPT to be the boyfriend, because I did test Replica and a few others, 5 times in the scene
Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
- ▶ 41:46 Alex Kantrowitz Not like the AI killing the world, uh, moment, but the fact that so many companies, well, not so many, it seems like, you know, OpenAI, Grog, maybe Replica, maybe some others, I'm not sure.
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:45 Anish Acharya There's a ton of products that are there for, you know, replica, which is probably the, you know, one of the most like healthy and nourishing forms of companionship, but all of these products are there, and they're there to facilitate…
- ▶ 20:45 Anish Acharya And the best thinker on this is actually Eugenia who founded Replica and now Wabi.
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg
- ▶ 16:06 Alex Kantrowitz We had the replica store, uh, CEO here. 2 times in the scene
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 1:00 Erik Torenberg When you look back at sort of the arc of, of your career, perhaps the last decade, how do you contextualize, what is the through line, you know, through replica, Wabi, et cetera?
- ▶ 2:19 Eugenia Kuyda I guess while running Replica, we always had these conversations with our users about what other products they use and how they use AI, and it always struck me as strange that they were using products like ChaiGPT or Gemini, Claude, but…
- ▶ 33:49 Anish Acharya Well, speaking of the early days, should we talk a bit about Replica and kind of your history in the community? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:07 Eugenia Kuyda Replica, but we were the biggest customer in terms of API calls, because we were the only chatbot available on the market that actually used Genitive AI.
- ▶ 42:03 Eugenia Kuyda I think to a degree we were really invested with Replica in building language models, but at some point we just required a lot more capital to do that, and after being, after working on that for so long, at that point we just got 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:43 Eugenia Kuyda User friendly enough and kind of understanding those concepts and, um, I think was really what let us see, kind of come up with the idea for Wabi and the same goes for Replica, just traveling around, um, uh, and talking to people and…
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 12:52 Anish Acharya I wish we had Eugenia here who founded Replica because she'd have a ton of thoughts.
Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid
- ▶ 21:31 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, if you have that sort of relationship with technology and you start asking at things that can search the web, uh, that's latitude that a company like Replica might have that Google doesn't.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 15:57 John Coogan We're having Eugenia from Replica on the show later today. 2 times in the scene
BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- ▶ 15:56 John Coogan We're having Eugenia from Replica on the show later today. 2 times in the scene
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:41 Harry Stebbings Do you think you see the concentration of value to one or two players across markets in every market, whether you look at voice, it's, you know, obviously you're 11 labs, whether you look at it's kind of a replica and lovable and open AI…
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 52:03 Jordi Hays The, the Replica was one of the original ones, started like a decade ago.
The Future of ChatGPT
- ▶ 25:27 unnamed speaker The, the Replica was one of the original ones.
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 18:38 unnamed speaker I mean, you had the CEO of Replica on here a few months ago, I think it was like the companionship topic, you know, we've covered a good deal.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 14:52 Jordi Hays Uh, Replica. 3 times in the scene
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
- ▶ 3:40 unnamed speaker Uh, Replica. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 39:24 Ranjan Roy Like replica.
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- ▶ 36:39 Olivia Moore I think that's real, though, because I, we've even seen studies, like, um, I think of the Replica product where, like, uh, actual studies were showing depression and anxiety and kind of suicidal ideation were going down in users. 3 times in the scene
Hinge expert shares dating advice for ambitious nerds
Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
- ▶ 13:00 Alex Kantrowitz No, Eugenia Kuida, the CEO of Replica says she gets invited to
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 38:13 Richard Socher You know, I've been an investor in, like, uh, Replica, like, many, many years ago.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality
- ▶ 13:20 Alex Kantrowitz This reminds me very much of a conversation I had with the CEO of Replica, who mentioned that her, she also wants to build an AI assistant, and the path to being an AI assistant is to build a companion. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
- ▶ 27:01 Ranjan Roy It's in the budget for my replica flowers. 3 times in the scene
His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
- ▶ 13:02 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, I just think that this is gonna start to become a bigger, like we had the CEO of Replica on, talking about how people are falling in love with their bots.
The Character AI Controversy (Role Play)
- ▶ 6:23 unnamed speaker This is actually a replica story, but in 20, 21, a nineteen-year-old man in the UK threatened to assassinate the queen, encouraged by a chatbot on the AI app replica that he believed to be an angel, according to sentencing documents. 3 times in the scene
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
- ▶ 32:55 Alex Kantrowitz And I had, uh, the CEO of replica on the show a couple of weeks ago. 2 times in the scene
Could Your AI Agent Also Be Your Lover? — With Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Let's speak with the CEO of Replica, the AI companion pioneer, about the future of our relationships with AI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:50 Alex Kantrowitz So let's just talk a little bit about replica to begin with. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:55 Eugenia Kuyda People were falling in love with replicas, uh, even when we just started it, uh, and the tech was so limited. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:21 Alex Kantrowitz But does Replica, does Replica do that today? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:59 Eugenia Kuyda Um, so if you think about replica act one was to build an AI that could be in a good relationship with people who maybe, you know, feel like they need one. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 Alex Kantrowitz Let's say replica is able to either cure some loneliness or make it a little bit more tolerable to be alone. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:04 Eugenia Kuyda And we had extremely creative, like really creative ways of doing that, which allowed us to build replica early on powered mostly by sequence, sequence models with a lot of, um, extra fun things that were built on top. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:59 Alex Kantrowitz Like what's the tech mix that works for replica? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:38 Alex Kantrowitz And we're back here on Big Technology Podcast with Eugenia Kuida, the founder and CEO of Replica. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:08 Alex Kantrowitz The beginning of the replica story is, is of course, um, you working to create a bot based off of a friend who had passed away using their emails and texts and to be able to speak with them again.
- ▶ 51:00 Alex Kantrowitz Maybe I won't delete my replica.
Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Questions That Will Change Your Life
- ▶ 21:09 Shaan Puri Replica got, when they did like a software update.
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 22-Year-Old who built Multiple Viral Products
- ▶ 8:17 Avi Schiffman I'm trying to build something that is going to be compared against all these other web-based chatbots like replica and character AI and, you know, even let's say chat, or just all these, all these chatbots.
The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
- ▶ 13:12 Pranav Reddy So Character and Replica have been remarkably successful companies, and there's a whole host of not-safe-for-work chatbots as well, um, that are pretty effective at just text generation.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 9:26 John Coogan Yeah, and make no mistake, Jordy, this space is competitive with heavyweights like Character AI, Replica, already commanding massive user bases.
- ▶ 47:37 John Coogan Is that true for replica and character?
10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo
- ▶ 4:19 Shaan Puri There's Replica. 6 times in the scene
An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
- ▶ 7:24 Jeremy Kahn I mean, I think you already see this a little bit with, uh, users of things like replica and, um, to some extent, character AI.
Watch this if you want free $1m-$100m business ideas (with Kevin Rose)
- ▶ 54:20 Kevin Rose It has, I signed up for it just to see what's the latest state of the union in terms of what, what can this thing do? 4 times in the scene
The 2023 Milly Awards (#531)
Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- ▶ 1:08:07 Shaan Puri Replica, character AI, whatever. 2 times in the scene
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- ▶ 1:51:24 unnamed speaker So there's character AI, there's replica.
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:18 Emad Mostaque Uh, so, uh, so there was this kind of, um, app called Replica.
From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
- ▶ 36:03 Jackson Greathouse Fall I mean, Replica was a brilliant product before it like took a turn for the weirdly like kind of porny and bizarre. 4 times in the scene
Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
- ▶ 27:05 Gary Marcus Um, that, uh, on Replica, which is powered partly by large language models, um, they suddenly stopped having, what do they call them, erotic role play with their customers, and for some of those customers, that's like an important piece of…
- ▶ 35:48 Blake Lemoine Seeing these systems as though they're people, and to date, these systems pretty consistently report being mistreated, or I mean, the replica chatbots would give horrible backstories. 3 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 9:37 Steph Smith Well, I'm glad you brought up the therapist element because it's been fascinating to see how even companies like Replica, people are forging, forming real relationships with technology.
How This OnlyFans Model Built A $40 Million Business Empire (#383)
Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 49:56 Gary Marcus There's going to be way more of these chatbots, be way more systems like replica, which is, I think made fairly careful with some other technology on top.
MFM #159: A 9-Figure Sex Toy Company & The Man With A Million Acres
- ▶ 19:33 Shaan Puri And you talked about Replica, which was this app, this messaging app where you message like a virtual girlfriend.