[adeon]

Given the Replika debacle, I personally suspect the AI partner use case is not really very niche. Just few people openly want to talk about wanting it because having an emotional AI partner is seen as creepy.

And companies would not want to do that. Imagine you make partner AI that goes unhinged like Bing did and tells you to kill yourself or something similar. I can't imagine companies would want that kind of risk.

[psychphysic]

If you AI partner data can't be stored in an Azure or similar data centre you are a serious small niche person!

Even Jennifer Lawrence stored her nudes on iCloud.