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JanitorAI is a San Francisco-based consumer AI platform founded by Jan Zoltkowski in June 2023, letting users build and chat with customizable AI characters for roleplay and companion-style conversations. It reached about 1 million users within two weeks of launch and runs LLMs including an in-house JanitorLLM.

Astrapuffs is an early-stage San Francisco game studio founded in 2025, developing a cozy multiplayer game of the same name built around emotionally intelligent, memory-persistent agentic AI NPC companions.

Flova (operated by Yuzhou Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.) is an AI video-creation platform founded by serial entrepreneur Guo Lie in late 2024, HQ Shenzhen, launched Oct 2025. Its conversational multi-agent system covers the full video workflow from idea, script and storyboard to final cut, orchestrating models such as Sora, Kling and Veo per scene, focusing on narrative and character consistency for animation, film and creators.

Kaon AI (formerly FlowGPT), founded in 2023 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, USA, positions itself as an "AI-native content lab." Its flagship consumer product Emochi delivers dynamic multimedia character-driven interactive storytelling, with over 2 million daily active users and an ARR of approximately $45 million.

Liangpei is an AI-driven serious matchmaking app (WeChat mini-program) that applies AI search and matching to finding people, covering three stages of dating: profile collection, intelligent matching, and communication assistance. Users first complete a ~20-minute AI voice interview to build a personality and mate-preference profile; the platform then does 1-on-1 intelligent matching, with AI handling ice-breaking, emotional support, and fake-account filtering.

Monstar (Hefei Monstar Technology) is an AI startup building an interaction-and-perception layer for agents to create 'digital life' for the AGI era. Its Monstar Engine powers a digital-life UGC platform, starting with AI electronic pets for emotional companionship in spatial-computing scenarios. Its core team comes from Tsinghua University's maker-space community. It closed a seed+ round of over RMB 10M in July 2026.