Character.ai
also referred to as: character ai
15 statements across 8 episodes · 9 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2023 by Noam Shazeer · said 44 times in 19 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Olivia Moore (8), Sarah Wang (7), Justine Moore (5), Alex Immerman (4), Jonathan Lai (3), Balaji Srinivasan (3), Anish Acharya (3), Steph Smith (2)
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2025 20 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital
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2024 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2023 16 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
- Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- 2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
- AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
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Everything said about Character.ai, oldest first
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
LLM hallucination is a feature, not a bug, for AI companions
“Like you want to launch something that's a doctor, It's going to be a lot slower because you want to be really, really, really careful about not providing like false information, but friend, you can do like really fast. Like it's just entertainment. It makes t…”
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
AI companion entertainment is ready for immediate explosive adoption
“If I, like, I want to push this technology ahead fast, like, that's what I want to go with, because like, A, it's, you know, it's ready for an explosion, like right now, not like in five years when we solve all the problems, but like, now.”
Sep 25, 2023
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
AI will improve massively from scaling without new breakthroughs
“And without any breakthroughs, like it's going to get like massively better as everyone just Kind of scales up to use it, and there will be more breakthroughs because now, you know, like all the scientists in the world are like working on like making this stuf…”
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Sep 25, 2023
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Character.AI aims for AGI by building consumer products at scale
“Our goal is to be like an AGI company and a product first company. And the way to do that is by picking the right product that forces us to work on the right things, things that generalize, make the model smarter, make it, like, do what people, you know, what …”
Dec 16, 2023 positive
Lai: Subscriptions will become default business model for AI games
“My guess is that companies like mid journey or care, like character AI have been able to address this with a subscription model. And so basically every power user pays for their own sort of like inference costs, so to speak. And we could see that subscription …”
Jun 4, 2024 positive
Jun 4, 2024 positive
Dec 9, 2024 bullish
Immerman: Gen AI search offers a much better UX than Google
“If you think about the Google experience as it is today, it's just a long list of links. And the first few are sponsored. They're ads. And I, as a user, when I make a query on Google, I then need to make the decision. I have to sift through the information on …”
Mar 26, 2025
Moore: Midjourney and Character.ai launched before ChatGPT in 2022
“Actually, Midjourney and Character AI both came out before ChatGBT, which I think a lot of people don't know, but there was maybe these early niche communities of early adopters that were using both of those products in the summer and the fall of twenty-twenty…”
Aug 27, 2025 neutral
Three new AI companionship apps enter a16z's Top 100 list
“Three new companionship names. So, Juicy Chat, Joy, and Our Dream all made the list, alongside a bunch of others that have made the list before. So, Character was the biggest name, Janitor, Spicy Chat, Polly Buzz, Crush On, Adot, and Candy AI were all on this …”
Oct 15, 2025 negative