How to build better AI chatbots [Video]

1.7 million AI chats in 30 days… and seven big lessons Campfire learned about building better AI chat products.

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At Campfire, we launched a consumer AI chat product called Cozy Friends on Steam and mobile on October 12. Imagine Animal Crossing or The Sims with AI agents. In the first 30 days, users exchanged more than 1.7M messages with our AI agents. This beat our best expectations and validated that we’d finally gotten good at conversational AI products. 

It took us a year of building to get there. We had to build a ton of tools, some of them twice over, and bang our heads against various walls for months to finally make a decent AI chat product. 

I want to build better AI chat products faster, and help others avoid our painful experience. To that end, I’m open sourcing all of my learnings, and launching all of our internal …