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In a cock-a-hoop move , Character . AI co - founder and CEO Noam Shazeer is reelect to Google after leave behind the ship’s company in October 2021 to found the a16z - back chatbot startup . In his previous stint , Shazeer spearheaded the squad of investigator that builtLaMDA(Language Model for Dialogue Applications ) , a language model that was used forconversational AI tools .
case . AI co - founder Daniel De Freitas is also link Google with some other employees from the startup . Dominic Perella , Character . AI ’s cosmopolitan counsel , is becoming an interim CEO at the inauguration . The troupe noted that most of the staff is stay at Character . AI .
Google is also signing a non - exclusive arrangement with Character . AI to use its tech .
“ I am super excited to return to Google and study as part of the Google DeepMind team . I am so proud of everything we built at Character . AI over the last 3 year . I am confident that the funds from the non - exclusive Google licensing agreement , together with the unbelievable Character . AI squad , emplacement Character . AI for continued success in the futurity , ” Shazeer enounce in a argument give to TechCrunch .
Google said that Shazeer is joining the DeepMind enquiry squad but did n’t specify his or De Freitas ’s exact roles .
“ We ’re specially thrilled to receive back Noam , a preeminent investigator in machine learning , who is joining Google DeepMind ’s research team , along with a small number of his colleagues , ” Google tell in a command . “ This agreement will provide increased funding for Character . AI to persist in growing and to focus on ramp up personalize AI products for users around the humanity , ” a Google representative said .
Character . AI has bring up over $ 150 million in funding , largely from a16z .
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“ When Noam and Daniel startedCharacter . AI , our goal of personalized superintelligence required a full stack approach . We had to pre - train model , post - groom them to power the experience that makeCharacter . AIspecial , and build a product platform with the ability to reach users globally , ” Character AI mentioned in itsblogannouncing the move .
“ Over the preceding two years , however , the landscape has shifted ; many more pre - train models are now useable . contribute these changes , we see an advantage in making bang-up use of third - party LLM alongside our own . This allows us to devote even more resource to post - training and create Modern Cartesian product experiences for our growing drug user base of operations . ”
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