How AI Companion Platforms Work: Memory, Story Mode, and Character Consistency
AI companion platforms have moved from novelty to a working category of consumer software. The pitch is simple: a character that looks the way the user designed it, remembers conversations across sessions, and answers in a personality the user wrote rather than a preset script. Reviews of the leading services describe one subscription covering text chat, voice messages, generated images, and short video, with a free tier for basic conversation and paid plans for everything heavier. The sections below walk through how these platforms are built, what people use them for, and where the current limits sit.
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