Riparbelli: Character.ai represents a successful new AI-native media format
Victor Riparbelli · Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers · Jul 19, 2023 · at 40:54
Victor Riparbelli, CEO of Synthesia, discusses why conversational consumer products like Character.ai are succeeding in the AI market.
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“I think something like character.ai has probably surprised a lot of people where they're not selling the tools to build chat interfaces, right? They're actually selling you a chat experience where you get to talk to a computer and a lot of people really, really like this. And I think it goes a bit back to the point I made earlier, right? Of like the most successful companies in this will do things that seem weird and that are kind of off center and it's essentially a new media format. And I think that's what's being demonstrated by something like character AI, right? Like that's actually a product where you're talking to a computer and people are paying for it and people love it.”
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