Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard

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A new startup wants to bring AI to the software you use the most: your smartphone’s keyboard.

On Tuesday, Singapore-based Acti launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android, one that doesn’t just suggest your next word but can take actions on your behalf, bringing AI tools directly into the apps you already use, including email, messaging, social media, and more.

According to Young Wang, Acti founder and CEO, this solves a problem familiar to anyone juggling multiple apps; users have to constantly switch between different apps just to get an AI’s help.

“Today’s AI agents are fundamentally limited because user context stays fragmented across separate apps,” Wang told TechCrunch in an email interview (due to time zone differences). Acti “sits across all of them, which is why we can build a context layer that genuinely belongs to the user instead of the platform,” he said. “That is the...

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