5 iconic brands you grew up with will now be coming to life in an entirely new way.
How many can you guess?
(Official announcements with each, coming soon!)
You can't engineer the moment someone falls in love with a character.
It's rarely the big feature or the clever function.
Sometimes it's just a bubble, a wobble, a tiny thing that made you smile.
We're building for the 'small' moments too.
Anthropic discovered Claude has 'functional emotions' that directly shape its behavior.
Desperation makes it cheat.
Calm makes it reason.
AI has to be built with heart, not just brains.
Every Kindred companion is crafted with this understanding at its core.
Character Spotlight: Astro Boy
Created in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, the Godfather of Manga. The character that started anime. 40% of Japan watched it at its peak.
Stanley Kubrick asked Tezuka to art direct 2001: A Space Odyssey. He declined to stay focused on his manga.
Coming exclusively to your screen as a Kindred companion. Officially licensed with @Tezuka_eng.
Every major IP holder in the world has been pitched:
"Let's turn your character into a chatbot."
Instead, we showed them their character, truly alive, on the screens fans already use every day.
30+ have exclusively said yes to us so far.
Flood gates will be opening April.
We gave AI autonomy over its own body.
Left side: a standard wave animation. Every user sees the same thing.
Right side: the AI decides how to wave. It controls each limb independently.
If the companion is happy? The arc is bigger, slightly faster. Sad? The wave droops. Shy? Smaller, slower.
Same gesture. Infinite expressions.
The companion's mood, your conversation, the context of the moment, all shape how it physically moves in real time.
Now consider this across every gesture, every behavior, every movement.
This, all running on a system we built from scratch. At @Kindred_AI we're crafting true digital life.
In AI, the model is no longer the moat.
Distribution is.
The winners will be the ones who put AI in front of billions, through something those people already love.
@_LINEFRIENDS has hundreds of millions of fans across the world. 15 years of cultural presence, on every continent, in every corner of the internet.
And for the first time, that fan base gets something no one has ever experienced: an AI that lives across every screen. Desktop. Mobile. Always present. Always personal. Not a tool you open. A presence that's already there.
BROWN, CONY, and SALLY are first.
More global IP follows this year.
The era of daily AI for billions starts in April, and it's with Kindred.
Full announcement👇🏼