Kuaikan's AI-native Livo beta: characters that keep living after you log off
Kuaikan Comics launched its AI-native product Livo on app stores in early September with an invite-only beta that lasted just ten days, letting users enter AI-generated fictional worlds in first person and interact with characters that have independent personalities and long-term memory. Dialogue, emotion and even story direction are improvised by models on the spot rather than scripted, and the worlds keep running when the app is closed; at the end of the beta users asked whether it could be extended and whether their memories would survive, but metrics such as average daily interaction time and retention have not been released. Livo was greenlit in late February under founder and CEO Chen Anni with a team of about 100, and runs on a three-layer "digital life OS" — a personality and emotion engine, a real-time interactive narrative system and a co-creation platform; Kuaikan rejects the AI-companion and game labels, calling it a self-running AI "bionic world," while characters running offline add continuous compute costs and subscription versus point-card pricing is still undecided.
It applies AI to character personality and user relationships rather than only cutting content costs; if it works, it could offer an IP path that skips years of serialization, though public recognition and monetization remain unproven.