The startup, founded by veterans of Google's AI project DeepMind, had previously raised $150 million at a $1 billion valuation to develop its AI-powered chatbots, some of which are modeled on fictional and historical characters and celebrities. The news comes amid a busy week for AI, with developments including OpenAI's plans to launch a store for developers to sell their GPT models, and rumors of Amazon building a large language model code-named Olympus.
Key takeaways:
- Google is reportedly in talks to invest hundreds of millions into AI startup Character.AI to fund its mission to train chatbot models.
- The investment could strengthen the existing collaboration between Google and Character.AI, which already uses Google's cloud services and tensor processing units to train its AI.
- Character.AI's character-based chatbots have been popular with younger users, making up 60% of its web traffic.
- Character.AI, founded by veterans of Google's AI project DeepMind, had previously raised $150 million at a $1 billion valuation to fund the development of its AI-powered chatbots.