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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 22 - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab has appointed Noam Shazeer, the former head of startup Character.AI and ... Gemini is the line of AI models being developed by DeepMind ...

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 ...

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 ...

As for the architecture, Character.AI has built AvatarFX on flow-based diffusion models. Character.AI said that thanks to the pre-existing image input prompts, users have better control over the ...

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 ...