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AI · July 15, 2025

Recreation of Neuro-sama for a year, alternative of Grok Companion

This is the project we've worked for over a year, gaining already over 1300 stars, 200 Discord members, the container of cyber livings, Project AIRI, where you can own your own customized AI companion on mobile devices, desktops, and be able to play Minecraft, Factorio, connects Discord, Telegram, while be able to do normal chat, realtime voice chat, and many other things. We were working hard for the past month to deliver better Desktop version of our Project AIRI, we decided previously to hold our initial show on HN until next release with many more features. However, yesterday, xAI…

Recreation of Neuro-sama for a year, alternative of Grok Companion launched on July 15, 2025 with 10 votes, #2,392 of 9,223 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

In plain words

Project AIRI is a customizable AI companion platform for mobile and desktop devices. It enables users to chat, engage in real-time voice conversations, and play games like Minecraft and Factorio while connecting to Discord and Telegram. The open-source project has accumulated over 1,300 stars and supports various interaction modes beyond standard chat, offering users control over their AI companion across multiple platforms.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

💖🧸 Self hosted, you-owned Grok Companion, a container of souls of waifu, cyber livings to bring them into our worlds, wishing to achieve Neuro-sama's altitude. Capable of realtime voice chat, Minecraft, Factorio playing. Web / macOS / Windows supported. - moeru-ai/airi

In the maker’s words, at launch

This is the project we've worked for over a year, gaining already over 1300 stars, 200 Discord members, the container of cyber livings, Project AIRI, where you can own your own customized AI companion on mobile devices, desktops, and be able to play Minecraft, Factorio, connects Discord, Telegram, while be able to do…

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