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IT Home reported on August 3 that according to Bloomberg, on Friday local time, the founders of AI unicorn company Character.AI, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some members of the research team joined Google.

The report cited unnamed sources familiar with the matter as saying that existing investorsWill buy out the company's shares for US$2.5 billion (IT Home Note: Currently about RMB 17.964 billion)This is much higher than the previous valuation of $1 billion (currently about RMB 7.186 billion) for the company. However, it is still lower than the high valuation of $5 billion (currently about RMB 35.929 billion) discussed during the company's early negotiations with investors last year.

Character.AI says it will reach agreement with Google on its large language model technologyNon-exclusive license agreement, while Character.AI willContinue to exist"Most of the talented team at Character.AI will remain on board and will continue to build Character.AI products to serve our growing user base."

For Character.AI’s founder, the deal represents a “Feeling of home”, both founders previously worked at Google. During his first job at the tech giant, Chazelle co-authored “Attention Is All You Need,” a seminal paper on generative AI. But as of July 2023, all eight authors of the paper have left Google, and many have founded their own high-profile AI startups.

Character.AI can make anyoneMake your own custom chatbot, imitating anyone and anything - whetherLiving, dead or imaginedPeople have created millions of chatbots on the platform, some of which are popular conversation partners. For example, users have sent about 371 million messages to the AI ​​"Raiden General" and "Shadow" (a character in "Genshin Impact") on the platform.

Not long ago, foreign media reported that Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI was considering acquiring chatbot maker Character.AI because it was looking for more ways to test Grok chatbots. However, Musk on August 1 via X (Twitter)Denied the news。