Bumble Inc., the US dating app founded in late 2014, unveiled Dates, an opt-in AI assistant.
It holds private conversations with users about their values and relationship goals and alerts both people when it identifies compatible matches.
The company said chats with Dates were private; nothing from those conversations would appear on public profiles, and members could choose which topics to share with a potential match.
Dates runs on Bumble’s in-house model called Bee, and the company said it would not write messages on behalf of members or generate conversations.
Bumble framed the tool as an effort to move beyond swipe-based matching and reduce friction between matching and meeting, a goal Whitney Wolfe Herd, CEO, described as central to the product.
Originally written by: Grace Priscilla Teo
Source: Tech In Asia
Published on: 12 March 2026
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