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Luka is a software development company based in San Francisco, California. The company created Luka app, a new messenger with AI-powered chatbots.

Replika is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2015 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Replika is an AI friend that you can talk to designed to make you…. The founder listed is Eugenia Kuyda (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, December 29, 2014).

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Replika

New accelerator entry · 2014-12-29 · the record

Winter 2015
batch
28
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2015
Announced2014-12-29
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size28
IndustryConsumer
Sub-industryConsumer -> Content
SectorsMental Health, Conversational AI
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://replika.ai/
Previously known asLuka

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Luka is a software development company based in San Francisco, California. The company created Luka app, a new messenger with AI-powered chatbots. They help you find places to eat, do web search, make plans together, pick places to eat, play trivia games and lots of other things in a messenger. In 2016 Luka launched a closed testing of Replika, a new app that allows to create a personal AI friend that helps people deal with loneliness. The app is powered by a proprietary deep learning architecture.

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