Character AI

AI · Menlo Park, US · character.ai

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.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Mar 2023	Series A US AI startup Character.AI raised US$150M led by Andreessen Horowitz, reaching unicorn status at a US$1B valuation.	$150M
Mar 2023	Funding round Character AI raised $150M led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $1B valuation, becoming a unicorn.	$150M

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