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Google has relaunched its Androidify app, now using AI to create custom Android Bot avatars from your photos or text prompts. The new app leverages Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash and Imagen AI models to ...

Google has announced a new Androidify app, allowing you to build your own Android Bot. This app lets you build an Android Bot by uploading a photo of yourself. You’ll need to compile the app yourself ...

Meta has unveiled a new AI app that combines chatbot features with a social media experience. Launched on Tuesday for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, the Meta AI app offers most of the usual ...

ChatGPT, the platform that started the current AI revolution, arrived some years ago as a standalone service that you could access from the web. Later, OpenAI rolled out a dedicated app for mobile ...

Harmonic, an AI startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, announced Monday the beta launch of an iOS and Android chatbot app where users can access its AI model, Aristotle. With this launch, the ...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. Similarweb, which estimates traffic to ...

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