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Inside AI’s $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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]
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:20:21 Soumith Chintala And so many other styles, like the Character AI style things is not captured in LMSYS.
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 42:18 unnamed speaker Uh, character AI.
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- ▶ 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