Character.AI Launches Group Chat to Establish Dominance in AI Entertainment

Character.AI launched a new group chat feature that allows users to chat with its AI chatbot characters and each other. It hopes this will establish its dominance in AI entertainment.

The startup claims its 20 million registered users spend 2 hours daily on average on its platform. It now monetizes via a $9.99/month subscription.

Cofounders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas left Google because of roadblocks to releasing their AI chatbot tech to consumers.

Character.AI aims to train more advanced AI models using a large order of Nvidia's new H100 GPUs. It sees traditional entertainment as its main competition.

The startup believes future iterations of its group chat will enable more natural back-and-forth between humans and AI characters.