Character.AI

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Character.AI is a conversational AI platform by Character Technologies, Inc. that allows users to chat with millions of user-created and pre-built AI characters. Launched as a public beta in September 2022, it primarily targets entertainment, roleplay, and creative writing use cases. It operates on a freemium model with a free tier and a paid subscription (c.ai+). Following the departure of founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas to Google in 2024, the company shifted from proprietary models to open-source alternatives from Meta, DeepSeek, and others.

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