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AI Companions are killing world's loneliness

The new AI wave is one nobody speaking about

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Guillermo Flor
Sep 27, 2025
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Last week Kevin Jiang in LA, an entrepreneur building an AI startup that blew my mind.

He told me he & his cofounder Nelson had grown their startup Azimov, an AI companion to 2.5M ARR in only 6 months

It’s some of the most explosive growth I’ve ever seen. And not only that, the average usage was around 2 hours a day! Completely mindblowing.

I just realised I had overlooked this use case since the growth of GenAI: AI companions

So I decided to get to work and research about what AI Companions are and why they’re the next big wave in AI that nobody is talking about.

In this NL I include:

  1. How the AI Companion Market is growing

  2. Fastest growing startups

  3. What the future looks like

  4. AI Companions vs AI assistants


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