Character.AI's new CEO, Karandeep Anand, announced the company's departure from its founding goal of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company has shifted focus to using open-source large language models instead of developing proprietary models. This pivot comes amidst ongoing challenges, including difficulty in generating revenue and the high costs associated with training LLMs. Anand believes this change has provided clarity and focus, steering Character.AI towards an AI entertainment vision rather than ambitious AGI aspirations.
The shift away from aspirations for artificial general intelligence (AGI) has allowed Character.AI to find clarity and focus in an AI entertainment vision.
Character.AI has abandoned its original mission and is now primarily relying on open-source large language models like Deepseek and Meta's Llama.
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