Pika Drops Group Chat So AI Agents Join Real Human Conversations
Pika's new Group Chat feature lets a single AI agent join shared conversations with friends, family, or teammates — generating media and completing tasks in real time
- Group Chat launched: Pika Agents can now join multi-person conversations on pika.me and the iOS app.
- How it works: Start a named group chat, share an invite link, then @mention your agent to activate it in the thread.
- Use cases: Family scheduling, friend group meme/video creation, and team content or coding collaboration.
- Cost model: Only the agent owner pays tokens; guests chat for free. Tokens range from $7.99 (800) to $149.99 (15,000).
- Multi-agent support: Multiple Pika Agents can coexist in one chat, each controlled by their respective owner.
- Current limit: Group Chat is restricted to Pika's own web and iOS apps — no WhatsApp, Slack, or iMessage integration yet.
AI agents have mostly been a solo act. You open a chat window, you ask something, you get an answer. Pika just changed that dynamic with the launch of Group Chat , the first feature on their platform that lets a Pika Agent join a multi-person conversation alongside real humans.
What just shipped
Pika launched the first in-app Group Chat with an agent. Available directly within its platform at pika.me and the Pika Agent iOS app, the update allows users who have created a Pika Agent to bring that agent into shared conversations with friends, family, or colleagues , rather than limiting interactions to one-on-one chats.
The setup is deliberately frictionless. In the Pika.me web product or Pika Agent iOS app, you start and name a new Group Chat, then send a link to invite friends, family, or colleagues. Once everyone is in, you mention the agent by name to summon it, and it starts creating, generating, supporting, planning, and booking.
The agent behind the chat
To understand why Group Chat is interesting, you need to understand what a Pika Agent actually is. Rather than chasing ever-larger general-purpose models, Pika emphasizes building persistent, personalized AI agents that function as true creative partners , entities users "birth" with custom personalities, voices, appearances, and memories, then collaborate with across messaging, calls, and real-time video.
The agents draw on their customizable personalities, persistent memory, and multi-modal capabilities , supporting text, images, video, and more , to contribute without disrupting the natural back-and-forth of the chat. The model stack powering them is a broad ensemble: Seedance 2.0, Veo 3, Sora, Kling, MiniMax, ElevenLabs for voice, and ChatGPT Images, among others. The whole thing runs on top of Pika's own OpenClaw-compatible agent framework, which handles persistent memory, platform routing, and skill execution.
What it's actually good for
The use cases split neatly across three contexts:
- Family: Booking reservations, scheduling vacations, setting event reminders, or making appointments.
- Friends: Generating birthday videos, creating photo collages, or planning outings.
- Work: Content creation, coding support, or other collaborative projects.
Multiple Pika Agents can be in one Group Chat, though only the agent's owner can invite them. That last detail matters , it means each agent retains its identity and ownership model even inside a shared space.
The cost model
The Pika Agent owner pays for the tokens associated with any actions and generations their agent completes within a Group Chat. Tokens are purchased in bundles ranging from 800 tokens for $7.99 up to 15,000 tokens for $149.99. There is no per-seat charge for the other humans in the chat , only the agent owner's wallet gets hit.
Currently, Pika Group Chat is only available for the Pika.me web app and the Pika Agent iOS app. An Android app is in the plans but not yet live.
The broader picture
Group Chat is the latest in a rapid series of social-layer additions. Pika had already introduced Community and Support Chats directly into the Pika Agent experience in its mobile app. Before that, they shipped PikaStream 1.0 , a real-time video engine that lets agents appear on live calls. The official performance claim is 24 FPS at 480p on a single H100 GPU, with about 1.5 seconds of end-to-end speech-to-video latency.
The pattern is clear: Pika is systematically moving AI agents out of isolated chat windows and into the social contexts where people already spend their time. This builds on Pika Labs' existing focus on customizable AI agents that go beyond simple chatbots, integrating them more directly into collaborative spaces , positioning them as active participants rather than standalone tools.
What to watch for
The feature is live now, but a few limitations are worth noting. Group Chat is currently confined to Pika's own apps , it does not yet extend to the platform's broader integrations like WhatsApp, Slack, or iMessage, where most actual group conversations happen. That expansion, if it comes, would be the more significant unlock. For now, Group Chat is a compelling proof-of-concept that the one-human-one-agent model is not the only way this plays out.
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