Character News | Oct 11, 2024
Erin Teague has joined Character as Chief Product Officer in the United States, previously serving as SVP Technical Advisor of Search, Ads, Maps, Bard, Gemini, Assistant, Shopping, Payments at Google...
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🌎 character.aiCharacter 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.
Character News & Insights as of Oct 11, 2024
- Erin Teague has joined Character as Chief Product Officer in the United States, previously serving as SVP Technical Advisor of Search, Ads, Maps, Bard, Gemini, Assistant, Shopping, Payments at Google.
- Google acquired Character for $2.7 billion, bringing back co-founder Noam Shazeer as VP engineering and co-lead of the Gemini project.
- Character shifts focus to consumer chatbot products after a $2.7 billion deal with Google, which hired its co-founders and acquired a license to use its AI models.
- Character signed a $2.7 billion contract with Google after its founder left for Google.
- Google has invested $2.7 billion in Character through a 'reverse acquihire,' acquiring a non-exclusive license to use its technology while 30 top researchers, including co-founder Noam Shazeer, return to Google.
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