Ex-Google engineers who founded Character.AI rejoin company with new AI partnership

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One of the founders previously criticized the tech giant for moving too cautiously to release artificial intelligence products.

Character.AI co-founders and former Google engineers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas are returning to the search giant's artificial intelligence unit DeepMind.📺 24/7 Chicago news stream: Watch NBC 5 free wherever you are

Character.AI uses large language models to allow users to create chatbots and interact with those created by other users. The startup reached aas the AI boom began last year. Character.AI did not generate revenue then but said it was considering offering a subscription service in the future.rebuffed their attempts to try and get Google to push a chatbot forward. They went on to start Character.AI that same year.

"Over the past two years, however, the landscape has shifted — many more pre-trained models are now available," the blog post continues."Given these changes, we see an advantage in making greater use of third-party LLMs alongside our own. This allows us to devote even more resources to post-training and creating new product experiences for our growing user base.

 

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