Character.ai, the originator of the ‘Persona chatbot’, began a mobile service following Microsoft (MS) and OpenAI. The brand new mobile app is cruising, recording over 500,000 Android downloads inside days of launch and reaching #7 on iOS.
Bloomberg introduced on the twenty fifth (local time) that the start-up character.ai has released a mobile version of a man-made intelligence (AI) chatbot. As a free service, it will possibly be utilized in Korea, but only supports English.
This service is a generative AI-based chatbot that may converse with tons of of virtual characters, from past figures similar to Socrates to current figures similar to Elon Musk and Billie Eilish, in addition to fictional characters similar to Harry Potter and Batman. Users also can arrange latest characters.
The discharge of the mobile version follows the recent popularity of AI chatbots spreading rapidly through mobile phones. In keeping with data.ai, a mobile specialist, the highest 10 AI apps within the app market recorded sales of greater than 14 million dollars (roughly 18.4 billion won) in the primary quarter of last yr.
Accordingly, MS released ‘Bing Chat’, a mobile search widget, on the seventeenth, and OpenAI also released ChatGPT for iOS on the 18th.
Character.ai began mobile service on the twenty second. As of the twenty seventh, it recorded greater than 500,000 downloads on Google Play, and ranked seventh within the entertainment category within the App Store, beating giant platform apps similar to Disney Plus and Amazon Prime Video.
Specifically, the corporate is legendary for being the primary to introduce ‘Persona’, the present AI chatbot trend. This can be a service that differentiates conversations by giving virtual personalities to chatbots, and lots of corporations similar to Gorilla Technologies and D-ID have since benchmarked this.
Founded by two key engineers who developed ‘Lambda’ at Google, this company opened an internet site in order that more users can use the AI chatbot. attracted
Because of this, it succeeded in attracting $150 million (about 190 billion won) of funds through a series A investment round, joining the ranks of ‘unicorns’ with a company value of greater than $1 billion (about 1.3 trillion won).
In a blog post, Character.ai said, “We’re delighted to have the opportunity to bring the identical amazing experience to mobile that you’ve got come to like on the web site.”
Reporter Lim Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com