{"id":3010,"date":"2023-03-31T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/ai-company-with-zero-revenue-raises-150-million\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:49:04","slug":"ai-company-with-zero-revenue-raises-150-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/ai-company-with-zero-revenue-raises-150-million\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Company With Zero Revenue Raises $150 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Profit, Shmofit With the help of a brand new $150 million dollar cash infusion from Andreessen Horowitz, a 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap \u2014 despite having yet to generate any revenue. Founded by two ex-Googlers, the idea is to host various AI-powered personalities, from celebrities to anime characters to Twitch streams to historical figures and more, all of whom users can interact with via text. Wanna ask AI Taylor Swift what her favorite song is? Albert Einstein what his greatest accomplishment was? Go for it, kid. But giving users the means to &#8220;chat&#8221; with algorithmic celebs doesn&#8217;t really appear to be Character.ai&#8217;s billion-dollar get. Rather, the app is marketed as an alternative to Replika \u2014\u00a0yes, that Replika\u00a0\u2014 by providing users with a space to build and chat with customizable, AI-powered companions. &#8220;Character.ai&#8217;s power is our highly-sophisticated language model, which rapidly analyzes and contextualizes large volumes of information to produce useful intelligence tailored to each individual,&#8221; company CEO Noam Shazeer said in a press release, &#8220;making it a personalized superintelligence companion that enhances productivity, offers advice, educates, and entertains.&#8221; &#8220;The potential use cases,&#8221; he added, &#8220;are infinite.&#8221; Lessons Learned &#8220;Superintelligence&#8221; feels like a marketing stretch, but we digress. You heard &#8217;em, folks \u2014 personalized, pocket-sized AI Tamagatchis for all! Replika became fairly successful, so it&#8217;s not the most out-there thing in the world to see the extremely AI-optimistic folks at the Andreessen Horowitz firm put some cash into Character.ai. Still, Replika has dealt&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-company-no-revenue-fundraising\">AI Company With Zero Revenue Raises $150 Million<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profit, Shmofit With the help of a brand new $150 million dollar cash infusion from Andreessen Horowitz, a 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[644,300,646,195,201,645,12,295,34,647],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}