AI 应用构建工具 Wabi 转向消息式体验

Wabi 是一家允许任何人通过提示词构建应用的 AI 创业公司。随着 Meta 的 Muse 和 Instinct等 AI Agent 的需求快速增长，Wabi 正进行一次小幅转型。该公司本周宣布，如今将成为某种 AI 消息工具——但它仍然能够创建应用，帮助用户完成任务。

这家创业公司的创始人 Eugenia Kuyda 此前还创办了 AI 陪伴创业公司 Replika。她将 Wabi 2.0 描述为“一个能替你做事，并在当下构建你所需界面的个人 Agent”。

这与 Wabi 初始版本提供的价值主张相似，但用户与它互动的方式将有所不同。Wabi 2.0 不再将自己定位为其他 vibe-coding 工具的竞争者，而是旨在更直接地与那些在单一界面中结合对话和生产力任务的 AI Agent 竞争。

与此同时，OpenAI 等公司也在思考，应用将如何在更通用的聊天机器人用户界面内运行。例如，OpenAI 今日在其 DevDay 活动上宣布更新 ChatGPT 的插件，允许应用在 ChatGPT 内提供交互式体验，并让应用名称固定在 ChatGPT 侧边栏中更醒目的位置。

Kuyda 在一篇 X 帖子中解释了，Wabi 的新体验为何更适合希望做的不只是与 Agent 打字交流的消费者。

“你越多地使用仅聊天式 Agent，体验就会越糟。你的历史记录和持续进行的任务，最终都会被埋没在一条无尽的滚动内容中。人们并不只想打字、打字、打字；他们还想点击、点击、点击，想滚动和观看。他们喜欢 Agent 能做的事，但他们同样喜欢软件。”她写道，“最强大的 Agent 将是把两者结合起来的那个。”

这一理念是：当用户要求 Agent 执行任务时，它可以按需创建用户界面，帮助完成用户的具体请求。举例来说，Kuyda 表示，用户可以创建卡路里追踪器、举重记录工具和体重追踪器，并可在自己与健康相关主题的对话线程中访问它们。

在另一个以家庭为主题的线程中，用户可以创建孩子活动日历、语言学习应用、追踪本地适合儿童活动的应用，以及其他与育儿、家庭管理或孩子兴趣相关的工具。

“到目前为止，个人 Agent 一直是一个人、一个聊天窗口，以及一连串一次性任务。我们认为，未来是让你的 Agent、你的应用和你的人在同一个地方，共同运转生活中最重要的部分，”Kuyda 写道。

新版 Wabi 2.0 应用目前仅可通过邀请码使用，邀请码正通过 X 发放。

Wabi, the AI startup that allowed anyone to use prompts to build apps, is undergoing a slight pivot as demand for AI agents, like Meta’s Muse and Instinct, takes off. The company announced this week that it is now becoming an AI messenger of sorts — but one that’s still capable of making apps to help you get things done.

The startup’s founder, Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, described Wabi 2.0 as a “personal agent that does stuff for you and builds the interface you need in the moment.”

It’s a similar value proposition to that offered by the original version of Wabi — but one that users will interact with in a different way. Instead of positioning itself up against other vibe-coding tools, Wabi 2.0 aims to compete more directly with AI agents that combine both conversations and productivity tasks in a single interface.

It also comes as companies like OpenAI and others are thinking about how apps will work inside their more generalized chatbot user interfaces; for instance, OpenAI today announced at its DevDay event an update to ChatGPT’s plug-ins, which will allow apps to offer interactive experiences within ChatGPT, and where the app’s name gets pinned in a more visible spot on ChatGPT’s sidebar.

In a post on X, Kuyda explained how Wabi’s new experience will make more sense for consumers, who want to do more than just type to an agent.

“The more you use a chat-only agent, the worse the experience gets. Your history and ongoing tasks end up buried in one endless scroll. People don’t just want to type-type-type; they want to tap-tap-tap, scroll, and look. They love what agents can do, but they also like software,” she wrote. “The most powerful agent will be the one that combines both.”

The idea is that as a user asks the agent to perform a task, it could create a user interface on demand to help complete whatever the request may be. For instance, Kuyda suggested users could build things like a calorie tracker, a weightlifting log, and a weight tracker, which would be accessible in her thread about health-related topics.

In another thread focused on family, users could create a calendar of the kids’ activities, a language learning app, an app that keeps up with local kid-friendly events, and other things that relate to parenting, household management, or the kids’ interests.

“So far, personal agents have been 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,” wrote Kuyda.

The new Wabi 2.0 app is currently available only by invite code, which is being doled out on X.