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Inside AI’s $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z Feb 19, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:03 Martin Casado These tend to be like pre monetization, but the dollars are large enough that you need to have a larger fund and the analysis, you know, because you've got lots of users because this stuff has such high demand requires more of a number…
  • ▶ 11:07 Shawn Wang Would you say that kind of happens a character? 4 times in the scene

Breaking AI to Fix It: Ian Webster's Journey from Discord's Clyde to Promptfoo's $18M Series A Oct 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:29 Ian Webster We, we built out that concept that I feel like since then has kind of been carried forward by, by character AI and like a kind of like a handful of companies in that vein.

The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information Aug 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:29 Shawn Wang I mean, I think the, the thing that is uncertain for me is like, and there's been like five of these, a character scale, all these.

Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research Jan 26, 2025 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 20:03 Alessio Fanelli Because you started the same time as character AI. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:28 William Beauchamp Character AI got this, I think it was almost a three billion dollar valuation, and they have five million DAU is a number that I last heard. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:51 unnamed speaker I only know when Character launched voice, that made it nice. 2 times in the scene

Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai Jan 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:24 unnamed speaker And like, one of the things that I was very surprised, surprised for perplexity and character as well was that they couldn't get it so low.

2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents Jan 1, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 45:04 Shawn Wang And the people who are in the middle inflection, um, character didn't do that great. 3 times in the scene

The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS] Dec 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:12 Pranav Reddy So Character and Replica have been remarkably successful companies, and there's a whole host of not-safe-for-work chatbots as well, um, that are pretty effective at just text generation.

The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap) Aug 2, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 22:11 unnamed speaker And so he's at Character AI, and, uh, they, they, he put up posts talking about five tricks that they use to serve 20% of Google search traffic as LLM inference. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:14 unnamed speaker As a, as a, I'm sure Character AI has some version of this. 2 times in the scene

Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI Mar 6, 2024 · 1 mention

A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate Feb 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:18 unnamed speaker Uh, character AI.

RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era Aug 31, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:25 Eugene Cheah I mean, the whole character AI category, there's quite a number of them using it for that.
  • ▶ 1:51:12 unnamed speaker So I'll call out, um, so I think you say character AI, but we, you don't actually mean the company character. 2 times in the scene
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