Character.ai
Consumer AI entertainment app: chat and role-play with user-made characters, plus playable books, short microdramas and comics generated from chats.
Menlo Park, USAProduct
Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.
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Lets people create chat characters with defined personas and talk to characters others have made.
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Sources
- Total funding
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Google hires top talent from startup Character.AI, signs licensing deal, Reuters, August 2, 2024. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.
- Valuation
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Character.AI Co-Founders Hired by Google in Licensing Deal, Bloomberg, 2024-08-02. Not a funding round: the price at which existing investors were bought out in the Google licensing deal -- "Existing investors will see shares bought out at a price that would translate to a $2.5 billion valuation for the company" (Bloomberg, read 2026-09-23 via its Yahoo Finance syndication, finance.yahoo.com/news/character-ai-co-founders-hired-233448298.html). Still the latest anchor; 2025 reports of talks produced no announced round.
- Employees
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Forbes company profile for Character.AI, "Employees" stated as of April 2024. Read 2026-08-27. No newer citable figure was found on 2026-08-27; the date on this entry is the figure's, not the day it was checked, so a reader can see how old it is.
- Founded
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Infobox: "Launched November 2021; 4 years ago (2021-11)".
- Status
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Character.ai's blog, 2026-09-18: "Character.ai's CEO Karandeep Anand is joining Disney in a newly created role as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer", expecting to be joined by members of the technical team. The app stays live and no transaction is announced, so status stays active.
- Description
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Company disclosure · 23 Sep 2026
"we've focused on building a leading platform for entertainment and fandom—pioneering interactive features like Books, studio-made microdramas in Series, and story-transforming Comics".
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