Character.AI, the a16z-backed AI chatbot startup from ex-Google AI researchers, is out today with a recent feature for its subscribers. The chatbot platform, which offers customizable AI companions with distinct personalities and tools to make your individual, is now offering a gaggle chat experience where users and their friends can chat with multiple AI characters without delay.
The Character Group Chat feature, because it’s called, allows users to create a gaggle chat with their favorite AI characters only or it will probably feature a mixture of each humans and AI companions, the corporate says. The thought is that users will find a way to create social connections with friends, or share ideas and collaborate in real-time, as in some other group chat experience, but with their AI companions now in the combo.
The corporate suggests users could check out having AI scientists and thinkers chat together, like Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, and Stephen Hawking, for instance, or create a gaggle chat with mythological gods like Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon.
For more practical use cases, you would possibly start a gaggle chat with friends around a subject or theme — like travel, gaming, book clubs, or role-playing — then invite an AI companion to assist facilitate and augment those conversations.
The thought of adding AI chatbots into a gaggle chat just isn’t unique to Character.AI. Snapchat’s My AI chatbot may be added into group chats with the command @myai, while Meta recently introduced the flexibility to call up a bunch of recent AI-powered bots across its apps, including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram’s DMs, including those which can be based on celebrities like Mr. Beast, Paris Hilton, Tom Brady, Charli D’Amelio, Snoop Dog, and others. The latter announcement, made at Meta’s Connect conference in late September, was a possible threat to Character.AI which raised a whopping $150 million in Series A funding earlier this yr for its concepts around AI companions.
Nevertheless, Character.AI’s recent group chat experience won’t be offered without spending a dime. As an alternative, the feature is first being made available to the c.ai+ subscribers so as to gain feedback and make improvements. C.ai+ is the startup’s $9.99 per thirty days subscription plan that provides the flexibility to skip waiting rooms and access to faster message generation in addition to an exclusive community channel for feedback and support, amongst other things. The corporate says it would later speak in confidence to feature to most people.
At launch, Character Group Chat can be only available on the Character.AI mobile app on iOS and Android but will later roll out to the net.
The corporate’s app initially topped half one million installs in its first six days and is alleged to be catching up with ChatGPT within the U.S. Third-party data from market intelligence provider data.ai indicates the app has near 30 million monthly energetic users globally, and around 7 million within the U.S. The firm also estimates its lifetime gross in-app purchase revenue is $1.3 million, but c.ai+ is sold on the net so this just isn’t a comprehensive take a look at its overall revenue.