It's a gold rush!
With the help of a brand new $150 million dollar cash infusion from Andreessen Horowitz, a 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet toFounded by two ex-Googlers, the idea is to host various AI-powered personalities, from celebrities to anime characters to Twitch streams to historical figures and more, all of whom users can interact with via text.
But giving users the means to "chat" with algorithmic celebs doesn't really appear to be Character.ai's billion-dollar get. Rather, the app is marketed as an alternative to Replika — yes,— by providing users with a space to build and chat with customizable, AI-powered companions. "Character.ai's power is our highly-sophisticated language model, which rapidly analyzes and contextualizes large volumes of information to produce useful intelligence tailored to each individual," company CEO Noam Shazeer said in a
, "making it a personalized superintelligence companion that enhances productivity, offers advice, educates, and entertains.""Superintelligence" feels like a marketing stretch, but we digress. You heard 'em, folks — personalized, pocket-sized AI Tamagatchis for all! Replika became fairly successful, so it's not the most out-there thing in the world to see the extremelyStill, Replika has dealt with some pretty serious issues, on the tech side as well as on the side of its users. After discovering that in a number of cases, users were
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