Wombo, renowned for its viral AI art app Dream by Wombo, introduces a new AI-powered creation – Wombo Me. This Canadian startup's avatar app transforms a single selfie into multiple realistic avatars, aiming for a streamlined experience compared to other AI avatar apps. Unlike its counterparts, Wombo Me demands only one selfie and swiftly generates diverse images, emphasizing instant results, as stated by CEO Ben-Zion Benkhin in a TechCrunch interview.

Designed for amusement rather than pure functionality, Wombo Me encourages users to share these avatars on social media platforms, envisioning applications on LinkedIn and Tinder to showcase both professionalism and personality. The app facilitates playful transformations, allowing users to embody celebrities, movie characters, or superheroes with a simple tap. Users can experiment with various hair colors, styles, makeup trends, and even create gender-swapped or enchanted character versions of themselves.

Wombo’s head of AI, Parshant Loungani, explains the app's user-friendly interface, where a single selfie results in ten unique alternate reality images. The Tinder-like swiping experience enables users to curate and save their preferred avatars, with plans to leverage this feedback for continual improvements.

Post-swiping, users can explore diverse avatar packs, ranging from LinkedIn-style headshots to meme characters, some free and others priced between $2.99 and $7.99. Benkhin assures high-quality images, comparable to or surpassing existing market offerings, attributing this to Wombo Me's ability to produce such content instantly from a single image.

Benkhin envisions a lasting impact for Wombo Me, emphasizing a broader platform experience. He foresees a social aspect where the app learns and generates imagery of a group of friends, creating content for multiple users engaging in interesting activities. Looking ahead, Loungani suggests potential expansions, including incorporating voice clips and videos to create multimodal identities for enhanced content generation.

Reflecting on the evolving role of AI in media creation, Benkhin believes AI-generated content will play a pivotal role in the future of social media. Wombo Me is now globally available on iOS and Android, following the success of its predecessor, Dream by Wombo, named Google's "Best App" in the U.S. last year, with over 47 million downloads and $4.3 million in gross revenue.