New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- Months after the shutdown of homegrown social media platform Koo, its cofounder Mayank Bidawatka is making a comeback with a new consumer tech bet, an AI-driven photo-sharing app called PicSee, which promises to make exchanging photos between friends automatic, secure, and consent-driven.

Developed by Billion Hearts Software Technologies, PicSee positions itself as the world's first AI-enabled mutual photo-sharing app. It seeks to solve what Bidawatka calls "the biggest unsolved problem in smartphone photography", the millions of personal photos that remain trapped on people's devices and rarely get shared.

The platform, PicSee, soft launched in July with 25 users, has scaled 75 times in under three months, driven ...