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The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 20:58 Anish Acharya You know, I would argue Character was kind of an entertainment company.
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 22:40 Justine Moore Yeah, there's, um, I think it was three times more U.S. teens have ever used character AI than have used Claude.
- ▶ 26:17 unnamed speaker But entertainment in a way that like we're talking about, you know, anthropic and chatty, he's general population, but you just said character AI is way more popular.
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 52:37 Ali Ghodsi One, you know, character that AI and so on, but I didn't think it's actually true.
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 1:35:00 unnamed speaker I probably started with the A-one-hundred, um, and I, I remember helping GNOME at Character, this is summer of June, 20, 23, um, chase down GPUs, and the only thing that mattered at that time was delivery date, because there was a huge…
Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital
- ▶ 28:35 Martin Casado Well, so, so the middle bucket was like, was companion was, was actually like, like, you know, like, like the friend, the emotional, like the character that AI is like, there's a long tail of companies that are, that are basically…
The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- ▶ 3:42 Olivia Moore So, Character was the biggest name, Janitor, Spicy Chat, Polly Buzz, Crush On, Adot, and Candy AI were all on this list and in the past.
- ▶ 14:05 Olivia Moore Then we have Character AI and Companionship. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- ▶ 22:57 Michael Lingelbach Like, you do see the rise of all these, like, you know, AI companion companies, like Character AI being the most notable, but like Chai, Taki, um, and, but still, like, when I talk to the characters, they all still feel, like, you can kind…
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 1:13 Balaji Srinivasan And those are the windsurf, scale, character, and so on, uh, this new kind of deal structure, then the Figma IPO, and then finally the new Genius Act.
- ▶ 44:45 Balaji Srinivasan Scale, character, inflection, adept, covariant are all, and windsurf. 2 times in the scene
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- ▶ 25:01 Justine Moore We saw early versions of that with Character AI, which added a voice mode, where, like, there's this pull, especially when you're trying out a new technology, to have some sort of familiarity of, like, I'm talking to this character from my…
- ▶ 35:34 Justine Moore This reminds me of my favorite post of all time on the Character AI subreddit, which I spent an immense amount of time on, which is, okay, and to set the scene. 3 times in the scene
The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- ▶ 3:13 Olivia Moore 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…
- ▶ 18:18 Anish Acharya it's just interesting that that feels, and of course characters got voice mode and, you know, and more, but it feels like character is, and companionship is such a horizontal category. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
- ▶ 16:59 Olivia Moore For example, Character AI added a voice mode and it got some crazy amount of usage in beta.
The 2025 AI Search Race
- ▶ 2:45 Alex Immerman So on ChatGPT, perplexity, Claude, or when I'm chatting with my AI friends on Character AI or on Poe, I get an answer immediately, and that's just a much, much better experience.
The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- ▶ 6:04 Steph Smith And if character AI is one that a lot of people are familiar with, they build their own model. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:23 Olivia Moore But many of them maybe have not trained a full foundation model in the way that character AI has.
- ▶ 8:06 Olivia Moore And the insight there that I was, like, shocked by, and I say this as a big fan of the company, but Character AI has the average user 2 times in the scene
7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
- ▶ 16:12 unnamed speaker So one interesting that you asked, so let's actually use the example of Character.
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 2:05 Alex Immerman The most popular consumer AI companies thus far have been the producers of their own models, such as ChatGPT, Character, Bard, and Midjourney. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:07 Alex Immerman It's true with Character AI, Ideogram, the list is short.
2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- ▶ 15:02 Jonathan Lai Um, another more recent example is, um, take a product like Character AI, where you have millions of people that chat with like their favorite sort of AI characters. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 Jonathan Lai Um, my guess is that, um, companies like mid journey or care, like, like character AI have been able to address this with a subscription model.
Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
- ▶ 21:33 unnamed speaker Um, Character AI is a company where people, you know, there's still a lot of judgment, um, there.
Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
- ▶ 0:50 Sarah Wang So to kick off this session, we thought it would be fun to interview you and the character AI version of yourself to see how you both answer the same question.
- ▶ 5:25 Sarah Wang But for character, it's not always about correctness.
- ▶ 7:07 Sarah Wang Um, well, and actually, just on that note of people on Character for multiple hours a day, um, let's talk a little bit more about Character AI explicitly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:18 Sarah Wang So go very, you know, much more narrow than characters going and go after a specific use case and say, hey, you know, I think the argument is we're gonna train this model to be focused on that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:20 Noam Shazeer So, like, I think that people we're attracting to work at Character are, like, people who, you know, who love inventing stuff and love launching it.
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 19:31 Martin Casado You know, we're investors in this company Character.ai, which creates these kind of virtual characters that you interact with, right?