From Ben Thompson's interview with the CEO [1: subscriber-only], Eugenia Kuyda, on April 20, 2023: > "But at this point, I think it’s much better to have a ded

From Ben Thompson's interview with the CEO [1: subscriber-only], Eugenia Kuyda, on April 20, 2023: > "But at this point, I think it’s much better to have a dedicated product focused on romance and healing romantic relationships, a dedicated product focused on mental wellness, just completely different set of features, completely different roadmaps for each of them. Also you want to collect the right signal from your users, right? Feedback for the models to train on, otherwise there’s way too much noise, because if people came forward with different things, they’re uploading and downloading different things, you don’t know what works and whatnot. Maybe someone’s a flirtier model and someone’s a mentoring AI coach type of model. So we decided to build separate products for that. We’re launching a romantic relationship AI and an AI coach for mental wellness, so things we’ve seen in Replika, but we don’t want to pursue them in Replika necessarily. We’re starting this separate product." [1] https://stratechery.com/2023/an-interview-with-replika-founder-and-ceo-eugenia-kuyda/ https://stratechery.com/2023/an-interview-with-replika-found...