Wabi, the AI startup that let people build apps using prompts, is changing direction. The company announced this week that it is becoming an AI messenger that can still create apps to help users get tasks done.
The new product is called Wabi 2.0. The company announced it on X and says it is built around a personal agent.
The move comes as demand for AI agents grows. Products such as Meta's Muse and the viral agent Instinct have drawn large user interest in recent weeks.
What Wabi 2.0 Does
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." Kuyda previously founded the AI companion startup Replika.
The core idea is similar to the original Wabi. The difference is how users interact with it.
The first version of Wabi competed with vibe-coding tools, which let people make software by describing it in plain language. Wabi 2.0 instead aims to compete with AI agents that mix conversation and productivity tasks in one place.
When a user asks the agent to do something, it can create a user interface on demand to help complete the request. These apps live inside topic-based threads.
For example, Kuyda said a health thread could hold a calorie tracker, a weightlifting log, and a weight tracker. A family thread could include a calendar of kids' activities, a language learning app, and a tracker for local kid-friendly events.
Kuyda Explains the Shift
In a post on X, Kuyda said chat-only agents get harder to use over time. "Your history and ongoing tasks end up buried in one endless scroll," she wrote.
She added that people want more than typing. "People don't just want to type-type-type; they want to tap-tap-tap, scroll, and look," Kuyda wrote. "They love what agents can do, but they also like software."
Kuyda said the most powerful agent will be one that combines chat with software. She described the current model of personal agents as "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," she wrote.
Other companies are also working on how apps fit inside chatbots. This week, OpenAI announced an update to ChatGPT's plug-ins at its DevDay event.
The update lets apps offer interactive experiences inside ChatGPT. An app's name will also be pinned in a more visible spot on ChatGPT's sidebar.
Wabi 2.0 is currently available by invite code only. Kuyda is sharing the codes on X.
