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Google hires top start-up team, fueling concerns over Big Tech’s power in AI | The search company’s deal with the start-up Character.ai is similar to recent moves by Microsoft and Amazon that have drawn antitrust scrutiny
Google hired the co-founders of prominent AI start-up Character.ai, in a deal similar to recent transactions by Microsoft and Amazon that drew antitrust scrutiny.
Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, two highly respected AI researchers, left Google in 2022 to start Character and in March last year the company was valued by investors at $1 billion. Top AI researchers can demand huge paychecks and training the algorithms behind apps like ChatGPT can require spending hundreds of millions of dollars on computer chips and the electricity needed to power them. While Big Tech companies can afford to fund AI development with their existing businesses, start-ups burning investment dollars generally have to make the technology pay off much sooner.
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