Google Hires Co-Founders From Top AI Startup Character.AI
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Google Hires Co-Founders From Top AI Startup Character.AI

The co-founders of Character.AI, a startup known for chatbots that can mimic anyone or anything, are joining Google in a larger deal that will allow the search giant to license the artificial intelligence startup's technology.


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Founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, along with some members of its research team, will enter into a non-exclusive licensing deal with Google for its large language model technology, the company said. The deal represents a homecoming of sorts for the startups founders, as Shazeer and De Freitas both previously worked at Google.

News of the deal comes after reports that the company had received acquisition interest from Elon Musk's xAI.

Character.AI is not the only buzzy AI startup to see its founders go to a large tech company as the race for AI talent and technology accelerates. Read more here.


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