GoKawiilDating app Bumble is bringing artificial intelligence into the matchmaking process via a new AI assistant called Bee. The dating app unveiled the upcoming features during its 2025 fourth-quarter earnings call this week. CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said the company's revamped platform, called Bumble 2.0, is expected to roll out sometime this spring, with tools designed to make profiles more personal and matches more meaningful.
One of the biggest changes is what Bumble calls a "chapter-based profile." Instead of presenting users as a handful of static details, the new format lets people share different "chapters" of their lives -- essentially short story-like sections that highlight experiences, interests or defining moments.
Today, a typical Bumble profile looks much like those on other dating apps: a name, age, photos and a few quick facts such as job title or hometown. From there, the process is familiar. Swipe left if you're not interested. Swipe right if you are.
The new format, Bumble hopes, will give users a chance to show more of who they are before someone makes that split-second decision.
Another feature, called Dates, will rely on the new AI assistant Bee to help users find connections.
No more swipes?
Wolfe Herd said Bumble might test eliminating the swipe in certain markets and then see how members react to the feature being gone.
During the earnings call, Wolfe Herd said people are tired of "being reduced to images and potentially dismissed with a swipe" and that the chapter-based profile will help people tell their stories.
With the chapter-based format, members will be able to share more about themselves beyond the basics, in the hopes that it will be more intriguing for potential partners. One member may be intrigued by another's trip to Italy. They connect to learn more, and maybe a match will form. It's also a way for Bumble to get more data to feed its AI and gain more well-rounded profiles of its members.
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