可构建微应用的个人 AI Agent「Wabi」最新一轮估值达 12.5 亿美元

打造顶尖 AI 助手的竞速赛已然打响，投资机构也正在分散下注。本周四，自称为“个人 Agent”（personal agent）的 AI 应用 Wabi宣布，其已按 12.5 亿美元估值筹集了 5500 万美元新融资。

Wabi 由此前创立了知名 AI 伴侣初创公司 Replika 的 Eugenia Kuyda 创办。Wabi 最初专注于让任何人都能通过 Prompt 构建应用。然而就在上个月，该团队宣布进行某种程度的转型，演进为一款 AI 消息助理应用。

现在的核心理念是，全新的 Wabi（被称为 Wabi 2.0）作为你的个人 AI Agent，能够根据你的任务需求实时构建所需的操作界面。

该公司指出，Wabi 可用于构建各种微应用（mini apps），覆盖饮食计划、本地餐厅追踪、约会之夜规划、健身计划定制以及专属问答游戏设计等场景。

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这笔追加资金表明，Wabi 的投资者认可其在 Agent 赛道新方向上的潜力，尤其是在当前 AI Agent 市场极其火爆的背景下——爆款 AI Agent 产品 Instinct 刚在 9 月份以 100 亿美元估值狂揽 10 亿美元融资。

甚至连开发出布偶风格可爱 AI 伴侣、帮助人们规划生活的 Tolan，也刚刚完成 3000 万美元融资。

领投本轮融资的 IVP 合伙人 Alex Lim 在声明中表示：“Eugenia 对 AI 的未来走向拥有敏锐独特的洞察，并在产品打造上展现了极佳的品味。她对人们如何与 AI 交互拥有清晰的远见，这种交互将远远超越单纯的文本框或命令行。Wabi 正是这一愿景的具象化，我们非常高兴能支持她。”

参与本轮融资的其他机构还包括 Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)、Forerunner、Amazon Alexa Fund，以及 Shopify 首席执行官 Tobi Lütke、Salesforce 首席执行官 Marc Benioff、前雅虎（Yahoo!）掌舵人 Marissa Mayer、前 Twitter 首席执行官 Dick Costolo 和 The Chainsmokers 成员 Alex Pall 等知名天使投资人。

The race to build the winning AI assistant is on, and investors are spreading out their bets. On Thursday, another AI app, Wabi, now describing itself as a “personal agent,” said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.

Founded by Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, Wabi originally focused on allowing anyone to build apps using prompts. Last month, however, the startup announced a pivot of sorts to become an AI messenger.

The idea now is that the new Wabi — or Wabi 2.0, as it was called — could build the interfaces you need to get things done as part of its role as your personal AI agent.

The company suggests Wabi could be used to build mini apps for things like meal planning, tracking local restaurants, planning date nights, creating fitness plans, designing specialized trivia games, and more.

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The additional funding indicates that Wabi’s investors agree that its new agentic angle has some potential, especially given the market around AI agents is hot right now, with viral AI agent Instinct pulling in another billion at a $10 billion valuation in September.

Even Tolan, which makes a cute, Muppet-like AI companion to help people navigate life, just raised $30 million.

“Eugenia has a unique sense for where AI is headed and a track record of great taste in building it,” said Alex Lim, general partner at IVP, which led the new round, in a statement. “She has a clear vision for how people will interact with AI, one that goes far beyond the text box or command line. Wabi is the expression of that vision, and we’re thrilled to support her.”

Other participants in the round included Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Forerunner, Amazon Alexa Fund, and angel investors like Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, former Yahoo! head Marissa Mayer, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and one half of The Chainsmokers, Alex Pall.