{"id":959035,"date":"2025-09-03T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959035"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:54:05","slug":"love-in-the-time-of-ai-companion-apps-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/03\/love-in-the-time-of-ai-companion-apps-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Love in the time of AI: Companion apps boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI girlfriend, virtual husband, digital friend community, holographic companion \u2013 these are some new-age terms, which define human relationships with AI.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for a \u2018fantasy match\u2019 has fuelled the growth of AI companion apps. As of July 2025, there are 335 revenue-generating companion apps, of which 128 were released in just six months of 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI girlfriend, virtual husband, digital friend community, holographic companion \u2013 these are some new-age terms, which define human relationships with AI. Demand for a \u2018fantasy match\u2019 has fuelled the growth of AI companion apps. As of July 2025, there are 335 revenue-generating companion apps, of which 128 were released in just six months of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}