Google In Talks To Invest In Ai Startup Character.ai

Alphabet’s Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character.AI, a fast growing artificial intelligence chatbot startup. The investment, which could be structured as convertible notes, will deepen the existing partnership Character.AI already has with Google, in which it uses Google’s cloud services and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to train models. Character.AI allows people to chat with virtual versions of celebrities and anime characters, while creating their own chatbots and AI assistants. The company previously said its website had attracted 100 million monthly visits in the first six months since its launch and is in talks to raise equity funding from venture capital investors, which could value the company at over $5 billion.