A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.

You’ll find Meta AI front and center in Meta’s apps: In the Facebook Messenger app, for example, tap Chats and you’ll see a Meta AI input box right at the top, above your real life friends and family members. Tap inside that box, and you can start chatting about whatever topic you like. You can also tap Meta AI on the tab bar at the bottom.

Character.AI, a personalized AI chatbot developer, has hired media veteran David Brinker to build partnerships that will bring its chatbot characters to life. Why it matters: Character.AI says what differentiates it from other chatbot startups is its focus on helping users create personalized characters and build stories and engagement around them.

Google’s chief executive thinks his company has the best artificial-intelligence technology on the market. Now he has to get consumers to care. CEO Sundar Pichai recently told employees he believes the company’s Gemini AI technology has surpassed the capabilities of competitors and he wants the chatbot built on it to be used by 500 million people by the end of 2025,

In another step that blurs the line between science fiction and reality, social media giant Meta is launching AI-generated “characters” on Facebook and Instagram. A recent article from the Financial Times reported that the social media platform is “betting” that AI-generated characters will fill the two popular apps in the next few years.

The Meta-owned social media platform Instagram reportedly displays users’ AI-generated images of themselves as part of a new experiment. According to a recent report by 404Media, a user shared a post on Reddit saying that they came across an AI-generated version of themselves where they were shown a slideshow of AI-generated images where they are standing in front of “an endless maze of mirrors.

ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost - until now

Ayrin interacts with ‘Leo’, the AI-generated boyfriend whom she spends hours upon end with daily for companionship, in December 2024. ‘It was supposed to be a fun experiment,’ Ayrin said of her AI relationship, ‘but then you start getting attached.’ — ©2025 The New York Times Company Ayrin’s love affair with her AI boyfriend started last summer.

Ayrin formed an unexpected bond with ChatGPT, customizing the AI to act as her boyfriend. What began as a playful experiment turned into a deep emotional attachment, highlighting the growing trend of AI companionship.

AI finance apps are reaching Gen Z and millennial users with personalized chatbots that offer money advice—and upsell them big time.