Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

Soula creates real-life empathy through AI to revolutionize support for women's wellbeing. 🌸

7 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Tim Draper presents Soula, an AI designed to support women's wellbeing through empathy. The team used reinforcement learning with domain experts to make it roughly 50% more empathic than general AI, built around three pillars: "I see you," "I'm here for you," and "your emotions are important."

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How do you make Sola more personal and feel real? That's actually our number one task, and we are already 50% more empathic than general AI. We use reinforcement learning— sorry, I'm a bit nervous too. Maybe I should breathe. You should use Sola. We use reinforcement learning with actual experts in the field in order to make this— make the chat sound real life. And we put focus on 3 major things: I see you, I'm here for you, and your emotions are important. Woo!