Character AI’s team is being acqui-hired by Google in the same way Inflection AI was by Microsoft.
I’m sure the spider-sense is tingling for a bunch of antitrust regulators right now. That said, I think this speaks to the high cost and lack of business model of most AI startups.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/02/character-ai-ceo-noam-shazeer-returns-to-google/