Life360 opens family-location platform to third-party AI assistants

Life360 has opened its Family Intelligence platform to third-party AI assistants, allowing connected agents to query information from its family-location service. The company says it began providing access last week and plans to learn from how members use the integrations.

Chief executive Lauren Antonoff described possible uses such as helping a family choose a convenient place for dinner based on members' locations. An assistant connected to a home-automation system could also use arrival information to trigger an action such as turning on a porch light. These are examples of how connected services could work, not a guarantee that every assistant or household system supports them.

The company expects experience with outside agents to help it develop related features within its own app. The announcement concerns access to a location-sharing service and should not be read as permission for an assistant to obtain any person's location without the required account access and controls.

Alongside the integration news, Life360 reported 5.3 million additional net active users in the third quarter, bringing the total to 107.7 million. It said paid users reached 3.4 million and quarterly revenue rose 40% from a year earlier to US$174.1 million. Those figures describe the company's reported quarter, not a measure of how many people have used the new AI connections.