Eugenia Kuyda (@ekuyda) / X

Eugenia Kuyda

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Eugenia Kuyda

@ekuyda

building @wabi - the first personal software platform founder at @replika - ai friendships uplifting lives

San Francisco

Joined October 2014

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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Nov 5, 2025
Today, we’re thrilled to announce $20M in funding led by @a16z, with support from @saranormous, @amasad, @akothari, @garrytan, @justinkan, @atShruti, @naval, @scottbelsky, @gokulr, @soleio, @kevinhartz and more. @wabi is ushering in a new era of personal software, where anyone
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Oct 21, 2025
I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Oct 9, 2025
We believe software should be free. So we made Wabi: the first personal software platform. With Wabi, you can generate beautiful, useful and fun little apps informed by your life. A whole new home screen, for a more focused, enjoyable day. Free from the incentives that create
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
May 26, 2025
Ditching the screen is a huge mistake. Voice will always be an extra interface, not the main one
Amjad Masad
@amasad
May 25, 2025
Clear that audio is a big part of OpenAI’s consumer plan—“Her”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the new device is primarily audio.
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Aug 8, 2025
People now miss 4o and want it back. We’ve seen this so many times with Replika - people often don’t want an objectively smarter model because they built a relationship, got attached or even fell in love with something and don’t want to lose it. We still (!) have to support an
Dylan Field
@zoink
Aug 8, 2025
Reminiscent of /r/replika/ in early 2023...
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Mar 27, 2025
Replying to @tj_littlejohn
Their letter is designed so much better than your app
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Sep 7, 2020
Honored to be on Lex's podcast - hands down my favorite podcast and the one that inspires me to work on @replika most. Thank you so much for having me!
Lex Fridman
@lexfridman
Sep 5, 2020
Here's my conversation with Eugenia Kuyda (@ekuyda), co-founder of @replika, an AI companion. We talk about loneliness, loss, love, death, friendship, intelligence, Russia, and the Turing Test. youtube.com/watch?v=_AGPbv…
Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Oct 12, 2025
office inspo for wabi
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Oct 22, 2025
Replying to @againhumility
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. That is being taught
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Jul 22, 2025
I’m blown away by the lack of any long term vision, mission or actually any narrative behind ai companions that are now popping up. The level of thinking is literally “well men are lonely and can’t get laid so we will make an ai gf” or as Zuckerberg put it “people have demand for
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Oct 22, 2025
Replying to @lovespurts
Very high
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Oct 9, 2025
someday, we’ll look back on the App Store like we do TV Guide: a place to find well-produced content made for the masses. and that’s just fine. as YouTube taught us that video can go far beyond 72 channels of cable, and Twitch taught us that live can go far beyond sports and
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Oct 8, 2025
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wabi
@wabi
Oct 8, 2025
swipe up to enter the new era of software... tomorrow 👀
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Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
Jun 4, 2025
there is a lack of visionary product thinking in AI. tons of innovation in models - but most products today automate existing flows (hence so many "cursor for..." companies) with few truly novel end products. yes, apps can be built faster - but they're the same apps (perhaps
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