Software Engineer, Character.ai

Growth

$150-350k

Offers equity

React
JavaScript
Vue.js
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Menlo Park, CA

Character.ai

AI natural language chatbot

Job no longer available

Character.ai

AI natural language chatbot

101-200 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceProductivityEntertainment

Job no longer available

$150-350k

Offers equity

React
JavaScript
Vue.js
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Menlo Park, CA

101-200 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceProductivityEntertainment

Company mission

To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Company mission

To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

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Our take

Search engines have long been a boon to productivity, but a long period of heavy advertising, content and SEO spam and malicious actors have limited the effectiveness of traditional keyword searching. Recently, conversational AI assistants have arrived, allowing non-specialists to navigate an increasingly difficult sea of data and return with relevant information, presented in a usable and sometimes very entertaining way.

Character.ai is one of the more recent entries in this increasingly crowded field that has only grown more heated since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022. However, compared to Microsoft and OpenAI's offerings, Character.ai stands out with a more playful personality - its bots can mimic the voices of celebrities, historical persons and popular characters. This has led to users spending vastly more time interacting with Character.ai's bots compared to the competition: nearly three times longer on average than with ChatGPT, for instance.

Following a period of rapid user growth, Character.ai closed a major funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. While it is currently enjoying meteoric success, in the longer term, Character.ai's challenge is to develop a funding model that will give it the staying power it will need to compete against OpenAI and other major firms in the market. A solution it is currently exploring is research-based partnerships with large companies such as Musk's xAI and Meta.

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Funding (1 round)

Mar 2023

$150m

SERIES A

Total funding: $150m

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Leadership

Previously worked at Google for almost 20 years as a Software Engineer then Principal Software Engineer.

Before co-founding Character.ai was a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Google. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at Microsoft.

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