Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Character.ai is seeking to rebound from Google poaching its founders in a $2.7bn deal by focusing on ...

At the same time, the AI landscape has changed drastically around Character.AI. The rise of open source models have made it increasingly less economical for a startup in its position to continue ...

and society as AI developers recklessly race to grow user bases and harvest data to improve their models." "Character.AI pushed an addictive product onto the market with total disregard for user ...

Character.AI users can create original chatbots or interact with existing bots. The bots, powered by large language models (LLMs), can send lifelike messages and engage in text conversations with ...

Character.AI has raised over $150 million in funding, largely from a16z. “Over the past two years, however, the landscape has shifted; many more pre-trained models are now available. Given these ...

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Startup Character.AI said on Friday it has signed an agreement with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google that grants the search engine giant a non-exclusive license to the ...