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AI companionship stops being a research question and starts being a venture bet

Startup Researcher, Oct 19 · read the original

Tolan raised $30 million from Union Square Ventures for its AI companion app and Shapes raised an $8 million seed from Lightspeed for group chat AI companions, money following where academic papers on AI and loneliness had only pointed before.

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