Wabi, the startup that let people build apps by typing prompts, is repositioning itself as an AI messenger — one that still builds software, but on demand inside a conversation.
Founder Eugenia Kuyda, who previously started the AI companion company Replika, calls the new product, Wabi 2.0, "a personal agent that does stuff for you and builds the interface you need in the moment." Instead of typing into a chat and waiting for a wall of text, a user who asks Wabi to track calories, log workouts or keep a calendar of the kids' activities gets a purpose-built mini-app created on the spot and pinned to the relevant thread.
In a post on X, Kuyda argued that chat-only agents degrade with use: history and ongoing tasks get buried in one endless scroll. "People don't just want to type-type-type; They want to tap-tap-tap, scroll, and look," she wrote. "The most powerful agent will be the one that combines both."
The pivot follows a year in which the fight over where agents live — a dedicated app, a messaging thread, or inside someone else's chatbot — has become one of the industry's central questions. It also lands the same day OpenAI announced updates to ChatGPT's plugins at its Dev Day, letting third-party apps offer interactive experiences inside ChatGPT with their names pinned more prominently in the sidebar. Kuyda's framing is that Wabi should be the place where a user's agent, apps and people all live together, rather than one chat handling a stream of one-off tasks.
Wabi 2.0 is invite-only for now, with codes being distributed on X.
