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.
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👇🏼
AI has had a voice for years. A brain. A memory.
The one thing it never had was a face you loved.
That changes today.
@_LINEFRIENDS brings one of the most beloved fan communities on the planet into the world of consumer AI.
They’re the first of many global IP joining Kindred this year.
The era of character-powered AI begins now.
IP isn’t content.
It’s the engine.
𝟭𝟬𝟬% of revenue from our first IP presale, SATO ($1.85M), will be used to buy back $KIN.
Every new IP expands the universe.
Every launch feeds the $KIN economy.
35+ iconic IP launches begin in 2026.
Apple’s announcement that they’ll be using Gemini’s AI for Siri might actually be a huge breakthrough for how we’re approaching Kindred companions on Apple devices.
Android we’ve got covered, but now Apple might also be able to cater towards deeper AI functionality across the ecosystem with our @Kindred_AI tech!