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Tuesday 10 sepTember 2024
Got Rizz? Co-founder of new dating app on using AI as your

matchmaking wingman

By WYATTE GRANTHAM- So, for now, Instagram is a
PHILIPS huge competitor. Tinder also
AP Business Writer has suggested openers. It’s
NEW YORK (AP) — Can arti- still very different than what
ficial intelligence be an ef- we do we take it a step
fective wingman? further and we give users a
Roman Khaves, co-founder strategy but I think those are
and CEO of Rizz, thinks so. the biggest competitors, as
The AI dating assistant app well as ChatGPT. And there’s
analyzes screenshots of con- many similar apps now and
versations you’re having on new ones emerging every
other platforms from Tinder single day.
to iMessage and crafts reply Q: What would you say to
suggestions. Rizz has amassed folks who may be concerned
millions of downloads since about bringing AI into their
launching in 2022, with more dating life? Where do there
and more competition also need to be guardrails?
emerging into the dating A: We’re not trying to replace
scene since. human connection. We’re
Khaves recently spoke with just trying to help people get
The Associated Press about to the date in the first place
the demand for this kind of because it is hard out there.
platform, how AI is being A lot of people don’t even
used to find in-person con- (Associated Press Illustration/Jenni Sohn) know how to start conver-
nections, and what guardrails give you tons of suggested would take a screenshot to for this type of product. sations online, and I think AI
are needed to bring AI tech- replies and also a strategy send to some of my friends Q: Who are your biggest is helping boost that confi-
nology into such an intimate on how you could start the and say, “Hey, what do I say competitors? dence.
part of our lives. The interview conversation or respond to next?” And we knew there A: I’d say at least 40% of our Still, privacy and control is
has been edited for clarity certain things. had to be a better way.The screenshots and conversa- critical in this new world of AI.
and length. The more you use Rizz, the moment that ChatGPT hit tions come from messaging We could have built Rizz very
Q: How does Rizz work? more it understands what the scene, that’s when we apps like iMessage and Ins- differently. We could have
A: Rizz is an AI dating assistant. type of replies you like. And launched Rizz. We integrat- tagram. We get a lot of Insta- made it so that Rizz would
If you’re stuck in a conversa- that trains the model to im- ed the API technology with gram, which I would argue is respond automatically or
tion or you don’t know how to prove over time. our product to make it pos- the biggest dating app in the connect to the dating apps
open up on a dating app, you Q: Why launch this kind of sible. And we saw immediate world today and Instagram — but we don’t do any of
can pull out Rizz and upload app? traction. We’ve had over 7.5 recently added an AI feature that. All users are in control
a screenshot of a particular A: Three years ago, I per- million downloads to date, that can give you different of exactly what gets sent out
profile or conversation that sonally found myself stuck growing about 30% month variations of how to rephrase to their match. And we are
you’re having trouble with in the middle of dating app over month, since launching a message, like more funny going to continue building
on that other platform. It will conversations. Sometimes, I in 2022. There’s clear demand or witty suggestions. with these priorities in mind. q

Apple pivots to artificial intelligence with its new iPhone 16 lineup

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE everything from smartening tino, California, auditorium biggest revolution in the instead of hewing to its tra-
AP Technology Writer up Siri to creating custom- named after Apple co- industry since Jobs thrust ditional October timetable
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — ized emojis on the fly. founder Steve Jobs, who Apple into the smartphone in an effort to upstage Ap-
Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone The new era will dawn pulled out the first iPhone market 17 years ago. ple’s release of the iPhone
is about to break new Monday with the unveil- in 2007 and waved it like a The advances included 16. In an attempt to set it-
ground with a shift into artifi- ing of the hotly anticipat- magic wand while predict- in the iPhone 16 could set self apart from the early
cial intelligence that will do ed iPhone 16 in a Cuper- ing it would reshape soci- up Apple to be “the gate- leaders in AI, the technol-
ety. keeper of the consumer ogy being baked into the
Apple has sold billions of AI revolution,” Wedbush iPhone 16 is being promot-
iPhones since then, helping Securities analyst Dan Ives ed as “Apple Intelligence.”
to create about $3 trillion wrote in a research note. Even so, Apple Intelligence
in shareholder wealth. But Apple’s pivot began three is similar to the generically
in the past decade, there months ago with a pre- named AI already avail-
have been mostly minor view of its new approach able on Google’s Pixel 9
upgrades from one model during a developers con- and the Samsung Galaxy
to the next a factor that ference, helping to build S24 released in January.
has caused people to hold anticipation for Monday’s Most of Apple’s AI tasks
off on buying a new iPhone showcase. Since that June will be performed on the
and led to a recent slump conference, competi- iPhone itself instead of re-
in sales of Apple’s marquee tors such as Samsung and mote data centers a dis-
product. The iPhone 16 is Google have made even tinction that requires a
generating a bigger buzz more strides in AI. Google special processor within
because it is the first model even took the unusual step the forthcoming models
The iPhone 15 Pro is shown after its introduction on the Apple to be tailored specifically of introducing its latest Pixel and the high-end iPhone
campus, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cupertino, Calif. for AI, a technology that phones packed with their 15s that came out a year
Associated Press is expected to trigger the own AI magic last month ago.q