LLM company building consumer character-chat (founded by ex-Google researchers).
Founders
Noam Shazeer(United States · ♂)— An IMO gold medalist and longtime Google engineer who co-invented the transformer and built the Meena chatbot, he left when Google would not ship conversational AI to the public, founding Character AI to do it himself.
Daniel De Freitas(Brazil · ♂)— A Google engineer who shared Shazeer's vision of open-ended chatbots and co-built Meena, he left with Shazeer in 2021 to commercialize lifelike conversational AI as Character AI.
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