Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, has launched its iOS app. The platform positions itself around four distinct AI agents with personalities: Maya, Miles, Simone, and Charlie — each with its own voice, point of view, and memory.
The founders announced the public preview on Thursday after over a year of development. Sesame's core technical claim is the ability to run multiple parallel searches while speaking, weaving results into responses mid-sentence. The agents sound less like machines processing queries and more like humans retrieving information.
During beta testing, over a million users tried Maya and Miles within weeks. That feedback shaped the current feature set: search cards with images, note-taking, a texting mode, and an incognito mode that keeps conversations off the memory system.
The iOS app is the first phase of a larger plan. The founders are designing intelligent eyewear for 2027. The agents are positioned to do more than chat — the company is working toward letting them take action on users' behalf, which distinguishes them from conventional chatbots.
Sesame has raised $250 million from Sequoia and other investors. The company is aiming to compete directly with ChatGPT's dominance in the conversational AI space.
