Reuters and Bloomberg reported on the twenty third (local time) that Character.AI, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot company, has raised $150 million (roughly 190 billion won) through a Series A investment round.

Through this investment led by Andreessen Horowitz and took part by SV Angel, A Capital, former Github CEO Nat Friedman, etc., Character.AI was evaluated as a unicorn company with a company value of greater than $1 billion (roughly 1.3 trillion won). .

Regarding this, Reuters introduced that despite the incontrovertible fact that the corporate had no sales in any respect, it led to a large-scale investment riding on the AI ​​boom, and introduced it as a noteworthy case amid the shock of the recent Silicon Valley bank bankruptcy.

Character.AI, which was founded in 2021 by two Google developers who developed the predecessor of’Lambda’, gained popularity by launching an interactive AI service in September of last 12 months. Unlike other chatbots, it’s characterised by the incontrovertible fact that users can create and communicate with their very own AI characters, and it was also considered a rival of ChatGPT.

Character.AI has already revealed that greater than 100 million people visit every month and use it for a mean of two hours a day.

Along with this funding, he explained that he’s discussing strategic investment with a cloud company, and plans to take a position in technology development, comparable to expanding the dimensions of the team, which currently has 22 people, with this funding.

“We created this company to make this technology available to everyone on the planet,” said an official from Character.AI. “One billion people will give you the chance to create one billion use cases.”

Chan Park, cpark@aitimes.com