Character.ai

Character.ai
Type of site	Chatbot, artificial intelligence, deep learning
Available in	31 languages
Country of origin	United States
Founder(s)	Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas
URL	character.ai
Registration	Optional; required to remove certain limits
Launched	November 2021

Character.ai (also known as c.ai or Character AI) is a neural language model chatbot service that can generate human-like text responses and participate in contextual conversation. Constructed by previous developers of Google's LaMDA, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, the beta model was made available to use by the public in September 2022.^[2]^[3]

Users can create "characters", craft their "personalities", set specific parameters, and then publish them to the community for others to chat with. Many characters may be based on fictional media sources or celebrities, while others are completely original, some being made with certain goals in mind such as assisting with creative writing or being a text-based adventure game.^[4]^[3]

In May 2023, the service added a monthly subscription option^[5]^[6] and a mobile app was released for both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, which had over 1.7 million downloads within its first week.^[7]

^ Cai, Kennrick (October 11, 2023). "Character.AI's $200 Million Bet That Chatbots Are The Future Of Entertainment". Forbes. Retrieved February 26, 2024. The pair founded Character.AI in November 2021, a year before public appetite for AI swelled when OpenAI released ChatGPT.
^ Tiku, Nitasha (October 7, 2022). "'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 11, 2022. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI". The Spokesman-Review. Archived from the original on November 9, 2022. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
^ Marshall, Gunnell (November 6, 2022). "An Elon Musk chatbot tells Insider he wants to buy CNN, reinstate Trump on Twitter, and 'show people how the sausage gets made'". Business Insider. Archived from the original on November 8, 2022. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
^ "@MarieLovesMatcha posted: [Announcement] Introducing c.ai+ Supercharge Your Experience". character.ai. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
^ "Character.AI: What it is and how to use it". Mashable. May 22, 2023. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
^ Perez, Sarah (May 31, 2023). "Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week".

[1] Cai, Kennrick (October 11, 2023). "Character.AI's $200 Million Bet That Chatbots Are The Future Of Entertainment". Forbes. Retrieved February 26, 2024. The pair founded Character.AI in November 2021, a year before public appetite for AI swelled when OpenAI released ChatGPT.

[:0-2] Tiku, Nitasha (October 7, 2022). "'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 11, 2022. Retrieved November 6, 2022.

[:1-3] "'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI". The Spokesman-Review. Archived from the original on November 9, 2022. Retrieved November 9, 2022.

[4] Marshall, Gunnell (November 6, 2022). "An Elon Musk chatbot tells Insider he wants to buy CNN, reinstate Trump on Twitter, and 'show people how the sausage gets made'". Business Insider. Archived from the original on November 8, 2022. Retrieved November 8, 2022.

[5] "@MarieLovesMatcha posted: [Announcement] Introducing c.ai+ Supercharge Your Experience". character.ai. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.

[6] "Character.AI: What it is and how to use it". Mashable. May 22, 2023. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.

[7] Perez, Sarah (May 31, 2023). "Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week".

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