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Google Hires Character.AI Cofounders and Licenses Its Models
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google has agreed to pay a licensing fee to chatbot maker Character.AI for its models and will hire its cofounders and many of its researchers, Character's leaders told staff on Friday. The leaders told Character staff that investors would be bought out at a valu...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google has agreed to pay a licensing fee[ non-paywalled link] to chatbot maker Character.AI for its models and will hire its cofounders and many of its researchers, Character's leaders told staff on Friday. The Character employees joining Google will work on its Gemini AI efforts, they said. AI developers Adept and Inflection have both effectively sold themselves to Amazon and Microsoft, respectively, in the last five months despite raising considerable capital.
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