We believe your next favorite human...isn’t. Today we’re Born: announcing a $15M Series A to reimagine AI friends. Here's our story:

AI friends aren’t therapists. They should be fun and social. The biggest misconception about Born is that we make people more lonely. This is default wrong and we proved it with Pengu -- a social AI character you raise with your real life friends. Millions of users build

Consumer social doesn't need form factors that force you to do things. It should multiply what's inside you and give you tools to be human in ways you can't be anywhere else. That's how you reach billions of people. Human relationships are messy, beautifully and brutally so.

We are hiring world-class engineering talent obsessed with building the future of consumer AI. born.com/#careers

For our new product, we built a chat in React Native that feels like iMessage Here's how we did it: ① Fabric Swift View ② UICollectionView ③ SwiftUI cells via UIHostingConfiguration React is responsible for the state - mutations, fetching, infinite loading - all via React

We’ve been doing this for a long time at Born. Everything in consumer is a funnel. Get the core funnel right, and retention becomes inevitable. I’ll share much more here on how we’re building consumer AI apps at scale.

We built this onboarding flow in React Native that feels better than most native apps Here’s how we did it: ① Patched react-native-screens for a custom transition ② Button and stepper are rendered on top of the stack ③ Synced button state across screens via context The

Hi yo. I’m in Berlin. This is literally the dream I had 5–6 years ago. I still remember those days scrolling through Stack Overflow, daydreaming about jobs in the EU or the US. I wasn’t sure if it was ever going to happen — or if all the quiet efforts I made along the way were

We’re open-sourcing React Native Godot this Sunday. After a year of testing, polishing, and making it scalable across all the different Android devices. Over the next few days, we’ll share all the different features we’ve built and best practices on how to use them. We built

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One of the most important features for Pengu was the ability to download and launch different games (Godot pck's) on the fly. Under the hood, our React Native Godot library manages the entire Godot lifecycle: stopping, cleaning up, and starting a new instance with a different

Empty frame just arrived. Chasing our 6th #1 and momentum is amazing. We're hiring engineers for our new product in NYC (or willing to move). If you’re maniacally obsessed with winning, love social apps, and want to build the future of AI characters — I'd love to hear from you.

A technically interesting challenge when building Pengu was generating transparent images for each user’s unique Pengu. With over 350 clothing items and countless possible combinations, plus varying device sizes, pre-generating images in the cloud quickly became infeasible. To

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Today, we’re officially releasing React Native Godot to the public. For the first time, every React Native developer can create games with an amazing UI on top. This unlocks a new era of apps and games. github.com/borndotcom/rea…

More on our next chapter at born.com/#products

We are hiring React Native engineers If you care deeply about craft, product, and building the future of consumer social AI, join us You’ll be working closely with Fabian Kamberi and me DMs are open

We’re excited to welcome Oskar Kwaśniewski and Szymon Rybczak to Born. They are exceptional engineers and fit perfectly into our mission to rethink how people connect with AI friends through our upcoming product. Together, we’re building the category-defining company in

Today we introduce Friends and preview Life, as we continue shaping the future of AI companionship. Pengu evolved into Friends. A platform of trustworthy, fun, and social AI characters designed for moments that matter most. Pengu for social connection, Mellow for learning, Bao

1.2M DAUs on Friends