Character.AI Offers Personality Chatbots with Group Chat, Draws $190M Funding and Competition from Meta

Character.AI, founded by ex-Google employees, offers chatbot service with 18M personalities based on real and fictional people.

The startup has raised $190M and says users spend 2 hours/day chatting with its AI bots.

Character.AI recently launched group chat feature for up to 5 AI bots and 5 humans to converse together.

The startup charges $9.99/month subscription for premium features like skipping queues.

Character.AI called out Meta for launching similar AI personality chatbots, showing competition in this space.