Character AI: Facing a challenge or having a chance in 2024?
The background information of Character AI
At its core, Character.AI is a cutting-edge platform that utilizes sophisticated AI technology to craft interactive, conversational AI characters. These entities, designed to simulate human-like exchanges, hold the potential to revolutionize various sectors, including entertainment, education, and customer service.
The deal between Google and Character AI
On August 3, Character.AI announced that it had signed a strategic agreement with Google, which includes: (1) Character.AI will provide Google with a non-exclusive license for current LLM technology. (2) Google will provide more funding to Character.AI so that it can continue to develop and focus on building personalized AI products for global users. (3) The two founders, Noam and Daniel, and some members of the research team will also join Google. In other words, Google spent huge amounts of money “buying” the core team of C.AI, or, moreover, C. AI was blown up. Such a deal for this start-up company is a "technical authorization + founder loss" cooperation method, which can be said to be a few joyful families.For Google and for the founders who have been kicked out, they expect to be able to develop better, but not necessarily for the start-ups who stay there.What will happen in the future?
Character AI Possible future development prospects
Good expectation
The departure of the founder and core R&D team may or may not affect the prospects for its core development, and it is still able to obtain a good development prospect and funding.And after the iteration of the tech team, the new team will be able to further upgrade the Character AI platform and seize some of the opportunities that had not been seized before.
Bad expectation
After a large team change, it may first be a blow to the employees staying in the original company, and may doubt the meaning of their continued work struggle.Morality is a very important thing for a start-up.Furthermore, the exchange of staff could also cause investors and users to question the company's capabilities and products.And once there is such a doubt, the company's future financing or development will become difficult.It can be said that this agreement with Google has caused a huge change for the Character AI company and has a profound impact on the future development of the company as well as the development of an entire AI partner industry (after all, it is the leading company in the industry).
Characteristic AI's Possible Impact on the AI Partner Industry
As a leader in the industry of AI partners, Character AI's huge failure will inevitably affect the future development of the entire industry.As an AI chat company that resists NSFW ai content, C.AI is more based on its advanced technology and the accumulated reputation of its predecessors.And many other AI chat companies, in fact, mainly make products involving NSFW content, both of which are very different in content. Companies like Crushon AI, for example, are actively embracing NSFW content.In the event that Character AI undergoes an agreement, these NSFW products could quickly seize the market for the original C.AI, causing it to lose a large number of its existing customers after the agreement's exchange.
Conclusion
This transaction will have a huge impact on the future development of Character AI and the entire AI industry.As a very new track, what will the future of AI partners startups look like? Let's take a look.
Testimony
"I don't like this deal with Character AI because I don’t know if the website I use will change suddenly.If that's terrible, I just want Character AI to conquer me with its advanced technology, just like it is." "Google's deal can be said to be a bloodless knife, i.e. to buy horses for its own AI side business, and also well controlled the growth momentum of Character AI so that C.AI does not get out of it when future Google launches related contests."
FAQs
What audiences are there for Character AI?
Users who like fresh things and are interested in interactive communication.
Does Character AI have NSFW content?
Character AI is strictly restricted to NSFW content, but because the user group is too large, there will inevitably be some NSFV content but, generally speaking, it is an application that is not designed for those who like NSFW.
What are the alternatives to Character AI?
The best alternative to Character AI, I think, is Crushon AI, which features the rich AI model of character AI and also takes NSFW content into account.If users don't want to see relevant content, they just need to use the NSFW content filter to filter it out.