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Character

🌎 character.ai

Character is one of the world's leading personal AI platforms, founded in 2021 by AI pioneers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas. The company specializes in creating revolutionary open-ended conversational applications through breakthrough research, offering a full-stack AI solution that allows users to interact with super-intelligent chatbots that understand and remember user interactions.

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Character - Latest News and Updates

• Character introduced a separate model for teen users late last year, but Common Sense Media researchers found it led to few meaningful changes.
• Character launched a new feature on Discord on May 2.
• Character developed an app that turns images into videos by adding voice and movement, competing with apps like Sora and Kling.
• Character has introduced video generation from Avatars, a new items system for roleplay, and expanded multilingual channels on Discord as part of their April 2025 updates.
• Character Technologies is arguing in court that chatbot outputs should be considered 'pure speech' protected by the First Amendment to dismiss a lawsuit alleging their chatbots caused a teen's suicide.

• Character is seeking First Amendment protection for its chatbots in a lawsuit involving the death of Megan Garcia's son.
• Character is currently in the pre-training phase for their AI model as of April 30.
• Common Sense Media warns that AI companions like Character.AI pose serious risks to teens, including emotional manipulation and harmful advice.

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