What is Wabi's new messaging experience?

Wabi, the AI startup that allowed anyone to use prompts to build apps, is undergoing a significant pivot as demand for AI agents takes off. The company announced this week that Wabi is now becoming an AI messenger of sorts, utilizing answer engine optimization (AEO) to enhance its capabilities — but one that’s still capable of making apps to help you get things done.

How does Wabi's AI messenger combine conversations and productivity tasks?

The startup’s founder, Eugenia Kuyda, described Wabi 2.0 as a “personal agent that does stuff for you and builds the interface you need in the moment.” This new experience is a similar value proposition to the original version of Wabi, but users will interact with it in a different way. Instead of positioning itself against other vibe-coding tools, Wabi 2.0 aims to compete more directly with AI agents that combine both conversations and productivity tasks in a single interface.

As companies like OpenAI think about how apps will work inside their more generalized chatbot user interfaces, Wabi 2.0 is poised to make a significant impact. For instance, OpenAI recently announced an update to ChatGPT’s plugins, which will allow apps to offer interactive experiences within ChatGPT. In a post on X, Kuyda explained how Wabi’s new experience will make more sense for consumers, who want to do more than just type to an agent.

“The more you use a chat-only agent, the worse the experience gets. Your history and ongoing tasks end up buried in one endless scroll. People don’t just want to type-type-type; They want to tap-tap-tap, scroll, and look. They love what agents can do, but they also like software,” she wrote. “The most powerful agent will be the one that combines both.”

The idea is that as a user asks the agent to perform a task, it could create a user interface on demand to help complete whatever the request may be. For example, users could build things like a calorie tracker, a weightlifting log, and a weight tracker, which would be accessible in a thread about health-related topics. In another thread focused on family, users could create a calendar of the kids’ activities, a language learning app, an app that keeps up with local kid-friendly events, and other things that relate to parenting, household management, or the kids’ interests.

“So far, personal agents have been one person, one chat, a stream of one-off tasks. We think the future is your agent, your apps, and your people in one place, running the parts of life that matter most, together,” wrote Kuyda. The new Wabi 2.0 app is currently only available by invite code, which are being doled out on X.

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