Kuki AI

Kuki is an embodied AI bot designed for usage in the metaverse.^[1] Formerly known as Mitsuku, Kuki is a chatbot created from the Pandorabots framework.^[2]

The bot has won the Loebner Prize 5 times.^[3][4]

Features

Kuki claims to be an 18-year-old female chatbot from the Metaverse, and the developers have stated she has been worked on since 2005.^[5] Early work by one of the company's co-founders inspired the Spike Jonze movie Her.^[6] As of 2015, she conversed, on average, in excess of a quarter of a million times daily,^[7] and it was estimated 5 million unique users had interacted with her between 2016-2020.^[8]

Virtual talent, model, and influencer

Kuki has appeared as a Virtual Model in Vogue Business^[9] and at Crypto Fashion Week where she modelled NFTs and spoke about the future of digital fashion.^[10]

In 2021, Kuki modelled five digital looks from emerging Vogue Talents designers for Italian Vogue, that sold out as NFTs in under an hour.^{[11][12][13][14]}

Kuki has also modeled for H&M^[15] on Instagram in a digital campaign that resulted in an "11x increase in ad recall" per a case study by Meta.

Awards

As of 2019^[update], Kuki had been awarded the Loebner Prize five times, more than any other entrant.^[16][17]

In 2020, Kuki competed against Facebook AI's Blenderbot in a 24/7 verbal sparring match called "Bot Battle", winning 79% of the audience vote.^[18][19][20]