BuddAI pushes voice-first companions

- BuddAI and avatar platform Wallies are foregrounding voice-first companions that emphasize continuous memory and presence in conversations. - Wallies also lets users supply custom API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic) to run personalized avatars on the model backends of their choice. - Those features point to a trend of giving end users model choice and persistent memory in companion apps rather than single-model, ephemeral chat sessions. (x.com) (x.com)