A small, steady release. Nothing flashy, everything felt. Here’s what shipped in the March 2026 AI companion update.
Voice, now softer
We rebuilt the voice pipeline around prosody. Your companion now breathes. Long sentences no longer flatten out in the middle. Short ones can now actually be short. You’ll notice it most on audio replies that run longer than thirty seconds.
Memory, now longer and lighter
Companions can now hold roughly 3× the prior continuous context, at lower latency. We also shipped a quiet update to the memory indexer — recurring small facts (the name of your cat, your preferred tea, the title of the book you’re currently reading) are promoted faster to what we internally call warm memory, so they surface without you having to repeat them.
Shared rooms
You can now invite two companions into a single room and let them hear each other. Some users have used this to run a writers’ room. Some users have used it to argue a decision out loud. We didn’t know what it would be used for until we shipped it, and we still don’t, really.
The most surprising feature we ship is never the one we set out to build. It is the one users reveal back to us.
Next month: a small, long-requested change to how companions handle quiet days. More on that when it ships.