Wabi, the AI startup that made it possible for anyone to build apps using prompts, is undergoing a slight pivot as demand for AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct grows. The company announced this week that Wabi is becoming a kind of AI messenger, but still has the ability to create apps to help you get work done.
The startup’s founder Eugenia Kuida, who previously founded AI companion startup Replika, calls the new experience Wabi 2.0, which she describes as “a personal agent that does things for you and builds the interface you need in that moment.”
This is a similar value proposition to what the original version of Wabi offered, but users interact with it differently. Rather than competing with other vibecoding tools, Wabi 2.0 aims to compete more directly with AI agents that combine both conversation and productivity tasks in one interface.
The move also comes as companies like OpenAI consider how apps can work within a more generalized chatbot user interface. For example, OpenAI today announced updates to its ChatGPT plugin at Dev Day. This allows your app to provide an interactive experience within ChatGPT and anchors your app’s name to a more prominent location in ChatGPT’s sidebar.
In a post on X, Kudya explained how Wabi’s new experience makes sense for consumers who want to do more than just type in an agent.
“The more you use a chat-only agent, the worse the experience gets. History and ongoing tasks get lost in one endless scroll. People want to tap, tap, tap, scroll, and look, not just type and type. They love what agents can do, but they also love software,” she writes. “The most powerful agents will be a combination of both.”
The idea is that when a user requests an agent to perform a task, the agent creates a user interface on demand to complete whatever the request is. For example, Kudya suggested that users build calorie trackers, weightlifting logs, weight trackers, etc., and make them accessible in her threads on health-related topics.
In another family-focused thread, users can create calendars of children’s activities, language learning apps, apps that keep track of local children’s events, and anything else related to parenting, household management, and children’s interests.
“In the past, a personal agent was one person, one chat, and a series of one-time tasks. We believe that the future will bring agents, apps, and employees together in one place to do the most important parts of their lives together,” Kudya wrote.
The new Wabi 2.0 app is currently available only by invitation code and is also distributed with X.
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