Character.ai, Google-supported AI with millions of monthly active users with chatbot provider, Announced Former VP Cardeep Anand, former VP in Meta on Friday, is joining the company as CEO.
The first board advisor for Character.ai, Anand is stepping into the role of CEO at an important moment for the chatbot provider, as the company tries to develop its platform together by combating child safety concerns. In recent months, Character.ai has an array pair of new security facilities in the light of an active trial, alleging that one of the company’s chatbots played a role in the death of a 14 -year -old Florida boy.
Anand comes in Character.ai with the experience of running advertising products that reached billions of users on meta apps. Earlier, Anand served as the head of Microsoft’s product management, overseeing the user experience on the company’s cloud platform, Azure. Recently, Anand served as the chairman of Fintech Startup Brex.
Anand has taken Google a character 10 months after the startup co-founder and CEO, Noam Shezir, who had previously led the Core AI teams in the Mountain View veteran. At that time, Google also signed a non-exclusive agreement to use the character.
Character.ai deal with Google indicated Federal regulator to investigate companies’ relations On antitrust concerns. It is one of the several reverse-aquihire deals in AI Startup Space, which has received regulator probe with Microsoft Influction.ai.
Character.ai has raised more than $ 150 million in venture funding, which are largely from Andresen Horovitz.
In a blog post, Anand said that one of his first priorities would be making “low overbuaring”. The new CEO stated that the company cares deeply about the safety of users, but that too often, “The app filters things that are completely harmless.”
Anand also said that he is planning to improve the quality of AI model on character. He says that many of these features are coming in the next 60 days.
Chatbots that are designed for purely entertainment, which is the character. In 2024, 66% of the users of the company were between 18 and 24 years of age, and 72% of the users of the company were women. Sensor tower,
