Text.ai

Text.ai is the home of Alfi, a social AI assistant that lives inside group chats. Rather than a one to one chatbot, Alfi joins a conversation among friends and responds without needing @mentions or slash commands, using what the vendor describes as a proprietary framework for deciding when to speak and when to stay quiet. Its skills are social and practical. It helps groups plan events, books dinner reservations through Yelp, sets reminders for the group, and creates and edits images together in the chat. It remembers each group's preferences, such as dietary needs and film tastes, adapts to the group's style and jokes, handles multiple languages, and produces a periodic Group Wrapped summary of the chat. Alfi is available on iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, iOS and Android. It is meant for friend groups and communities that want a shared assistant for planning and creative play. The vendor does not publish pricing for Alfi. The company describes itself as backed by Y Combinator and SV Angel. The listing sits in an image tools category, although image creation is one of several group chat features rather than the whole product.