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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.
Fedi puts Bitcoin in the hands of people you know
A wallet, a chat app, and a rather unfashionable idea: trust people you can actually reach. Fedi is betting that community custody can make Bitcoin useful beyond the technically fearless.
Eugenia Kuyda Is Betting That the Next Social Network Will Be Made of Apps
After teaching software to hold a conversation, the former journalist behind Replika wants everyone to make tiny apps. Her new wager is that software itself can become a social medium.
Thailand Came to LINE to Chat. The Shops Moved In.
With 56 million monthly users in Thailand, LINE has turned conversation into a route to shopping, services and banking. Its next test is deciding which errands belong inside the chat app.
VK built a social network. Then it put a shopping mall inside.
VKontakte turned friends, feeds and fandoms into a market for video, subscriptions and shopping. Its next test is making all that attention pay.
Sekai
Sekai is a San Francisco Bay Area consumer platform where anyone can build software just by describing it. Users type a prompt and get a playable, shareable mini-app - a game, quiz, utility, poll or interactive story - in seconds, then play, remix and share what others make. Founded in 2024 by serial entrepreneur Lucky Zhang, Sekai (Japanese for 'world') began as an AI anime fan-fiction tool and pivoted into general-purpose app creation as AI coding models improved. By mid-2026 users had created more than 15 million mini-apps, with roughly 200,000 new ones a day, and the company had raised about $26 million across Seed and Series A rounds from Khosla Ventures, Connect Ventures, a16z speedrun, Mayfield and others.