What was once a peer-to-peer music-copying application, now exists as a generative-AI platform. This new version of Napster surfaced on June 25 when a Florida company formerly known as Infinite Reality, bought the Napster brand for $207M and then renamed itself "Napster Companions." Think of Napster Companions as trying to put a human face on AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude. These domain-specific intelligent and personality-driven AI agents, incorporate thirty psychometric parameters that make each agent distinct with its own character, domain expertise, communication style, and task fluency. The Napster Companion library covers a nearly infinite number of categories of knowledge such as cooking, health, finance, education, fitness, design, software development, and more. Access costs $19 a month or $219 a year; the latter will get you a Napster View, an upcoming, circular 2.1-inch "3D holographic display". You can also buy 100 hours of Companion chat for $95 or get 200 hours f...