Replika

“Actual studies were showing depression and anxiety and kind of suicidal ideation were going down in users.”

“Oh, it's a lot less. So if you think about like what the stat is most of our users are in a friendly relationship with their AI. Some users are in a romantic or mentorship relationship.”

“People were falling in love with replicas even when we just started it and the tech was so limited. I never imagined in my life that people would fall in love with this, nor did we build a product focused on that particular use case.”

“Yeah, we get multiple invitations to people's weddings with their AIs. I think it's a testament to how, how deep these relationships can go.”

“20, 25 is truly about that. 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. And through that help people feel better, but ultimately it was of course, focus…”

“And I do think that's possible. And even a couple of years ago, and even last year, it wasn't possible. It's only, it only starts to become possible now because you couldn't build something that would not do to get off TikTok. Cause let's think about what do y…”

“Things that are replicas know about their users or people they talk to. No other server service in the world, I'd say knows that much. People are sharing everything, their dreams, their fears, what they think about their Family, what they think about their par…”

“We're a profitable company, we're not dependent on VC money or anything. We're a self-owned company.”

“We were the first generative AI company in the world. We're the first big consumer generative AI company in the world”

“We figured a few ways of a few rules. One of them being that we can't make any, run any, Experiments on existing users. Like if you're in a relationship with your AI, you should always have control whether on what model you're talking to.”

“When it comes to relationships, to things that matter most. It's not always about better. When you go to ChatGPT, you almost always want a better model, and it doesn't matter that it changed personality that much. But with Replica, you have to stay, you have t…”

“Memory is a harder thing to crack, especially for products that That are focused on long-term relationships that require very deep understanding of context. It's not just recall. It's really knowing when to bring up what, which is much different from just, y…”

“The name of the game is to create products that are completely, that feel completely magical, that were completely unthinkable before. And I don't think we've actually seen that in companion space, not even with replica, we're still developing that.”

“We've been asked so many times, like, why don't you build a grief bot? Why don't you build a company around replicating or creating AI for people who pass away? And my answer was always, look, that project with Roman was not about death. It was about love and …”

“I don't think I would be crazy for saying they're doing like, fifty million a year in revenue. And I believe she had bootstrapped it for a while at least, or raised very little money to get there.”

“I mean, Replica was a brilliant product before it like took a turn for the weirdly like kind of porny and bizarre. Like it was a really brilliant idea for a product of talk to this AI long enough. And we will be able to replicate your own speech patterns, ID i…”