打造最佳AI助手的竞争正在升温，投资者也在分散押注。周四，另一款AI应用Wabi宣布，该公司现将自己定义为“个人智能体”，已在最新一轮融资中筹集5500万美元，估值达到12.5亿美元。
The race to build the winning AI assistant is on, and investors are spreading out their bets. On Thursday, another AI app, Wabi, now describing itself as a “personal agent,” said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.
Wabi由Eugenia Kuyda创立，她此前曾创办AI陪伴类初创公司Replika。Wabi最初专注于让任何人都能通过提示词构建应用。然而上个月，该初创公司宣布了一次战略调整，转型为AI即时通讯工具。
Founded by Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, Wabi originally focused on allowing anyone to build apps using prompts. Last month, however, the startup announced a pivot of sorts to become an AI messenger.
新思路是，新版Wabi——或称Wabi 2.0——能够作为你的个人AI智能体，构建完成任务所需的各种界面。
The idea now is that the new Wabi — or Wabi 2.0, as it was called — could build the interfaces you need to get things done as part of its role as your personal AI agent.
公司表示，Wabi可用于构建膳食规划、追踪本地餐厅、策划约会之夜、制定健身计划、设计专业问答游戏等微型应用。
The company suggests Wabi could be used to build mini apps for things like meal planning, tracking local restaurants, planning date nights, creating fitness plans, designing specialized trivia games, and more.
这笔额外融资表明，Wabi的投资者认可其新的智能体路线极具潜力，尤其是当前AI智能体市场火热，病毒式传播的AI智能体Instinct在9月又以100亿美元估值融资10亿美元。
The additional funding indicates that Wabi’s investors agree that its new agentic angle has some potential, especially given the market around AI agents is hot right now, with viral AI agent Instinct pulling in another billion at a $10 billion valuation in September.
甚至连打造可爱木偶风格AI伴侣帮助人们应对生活的Tolan，刚刚也融到了3000万美元。
Even Tolan, which makes a cute, muppet-like AI companion to help people navigate life, just raised $30 million.
“Eugenia对AI发展方向有独到洞察，且在构建产品方面有着卓越的品味记录，”领投本轮融资的IVP普通合伙人Alex Lim在声明中表示，“她对人们将如何与AI互动有着清晰愿景，这远远超越了文本框或命令行。Wabi正是这一愿景的体现，我们很高兴能支持她。” 本轮其他参投方包括Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)、Forerunner、Amazon Alexa Fund，以及Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke、Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff、前Yahoo!掌门人Marissa Mayer、前Twitter CEO Dick Costolo、The Chainsmokers成员Alex Pall等天使投资人。
“Eugenia has a unique sense for where AI is headed and a track record of great taste in building it,” said Alex Lim, general partner at IVP, which led the new round, in a statement. “She has a clear vision for how people will interact with AI, one that goes far beyond the text box or command line. Wabi is the expression of that vision, and we’re thrilled to support her.”Other participants in the round included Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Forerunner, Amazon Alexa Fund, and angel investors like Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, former Yahoo! head Marissa Mayer, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and one half of The Chainsmokers, Alex Pall.