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Wabi Wants Your Group Chat to Get a Life
The company behind prompt-built mini-apps has a new bet: put an AI assistant where friends already make plans, and let the software appear when they need it.
Cantina Wants Your Next Social Star to Be Imaginary
Sean Parker’s social app has traded the empty-room problem for a cast of AI characters. Now Cantina Labs wants those characters to talk, perform, and follow their creators onto the rest of the internet.
The Houseparty Guy Got Burned Twice. Now He Wants You to Own the Group Chat.
Ben Rubin built Meerkat and Houseparty, watched both die, and decided the problem was ownership. Towns Labs is his answer: a messaging protocol where the community holds the keys, not the landlord.
Arena
Arena is a San Francisco-based audience engagement platform that turns publishers' and brands' own websites into social-network-like communities. Through live blogs, group chats, comments, AI-powered content feeds and audience analytics, Arena helps over 20,000 organizations - including Fox Sports - keep readers on-site, collect first-party data and monetize attention they used to give away to social platforms.