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IT Home reported on August 1 that according to The Information local time on the 31st, Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is considering acquiring chatbot manufacturer Character.AI because it is looking forMore MethodsTo test the Grok chatbot.

The report also pointed out that this discussion "may not" lead to a deal, but discussions within xAI indicate that small AI startups such as Character.AI will also face high costs of training and running models when competing with wealthy "big fish", so this type of cooperation may become more and more common in the future.

With the growing demand for AI,Major technology giants have begun competing for scarce AI resources, most of which will choose to cooperate with AI startups. In May this year, there were media reports that Meta and Character.AI discussed cooperation. In addition, xAI also negotiated a partnership with Character.AI at the time, but "no agreement has been reached yet."

IT Home Note: Character.AI was founded by former Google employees Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas. Users can createYour own chatbot and AI assistant, divided into two versions, paid and free. The paid version costs US$9.99 per month (currently about RMB 72).

Character.AI’s chatbot hasA variety of roles and tonesIt is available that users aged 18-24 contribute about 60% of the website traffic.