Andreessen Horowitz Invest in Chatbot Startup Character AI – Decrypt
Posted: March 24, 2023 at 12:22 am
Venture capitalist firms are always on the hunt for the next big thingespecially when the current hype cycle starts to cool. Already well established in crypto initiatives, Andreessen Horowitz announced on Thursday an investment in software development company Character AI, developers of the Character AI chatbot.
The series A funding round totaled $150 million, was led by a16z, and includes investment from Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, SV Angel, and A Capital.
Along with the investment in Character AI, Andreessen Horowitzs general partner Sarah Wang will join the Character AI board.
If the internet was the dawn of universally accessible information, this moment in A.I. may very well be the dawn of universally accessible intelligence, Wang tweeted, announcing the investment.
We are at the iPhone moment of A.I., Wang wrote. Like mobile and the internet, the A.I. revolution starts with the consumer.
Launched in September 2022 by former Google software engineers Noam Shazeer and Daniel Freitas, Character AI is a web application that generates text responses via pre-programmed character chatbots. Shazeer and Freitas serve as Character AI's CEO and President, respectively.
Character AI says the funds will provide the resources the company needs to grow during its hypergrowth phase.
We understand the importance of providing an A.I. that truly feels like your own, Character AI said in a blog post. Thats why our A.I. is customizable.
Character AI chatbots can be customized to suit each users preferences, which the company says could serve as a sympathetic ear or an analytical problem-solver.
Character AI says that over 1 million A.I. characters have been created through its service, including bots based on Telsa and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Jackson, and fictional characters like Tony Stark and Saul Goodman.
These interactions come with a disclaimer: Everything characters say is made up.
Since the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022, the idea of implementing artificial intelligence in blockchain has also taken off, with developers aiming to integrate the technology with smart contracts and tokens.
While smart contracts are common in Web3, artificial intelligence is becoming a part of the blockchain industry as several projects roll out A.I. tokens, including Hera, ALI, NMR, and AGIX.
A.I. tokens are cryptocurrencies that aim to use artificial intelligence to improve security, user experience, and scalability.
According to data from market intelligence firm Grand View Research, the burgeoning A.I. industry has been valued at over $136.6 billion in 2022 and is estimated to reach $196 billion in 2023.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alex Pentland, John Werner, and Chris Bishop, see a clear path for A.I. to merge with blockchain technology.
At a macro level, [blockchain and A.I.] can provide a level of transparency, accountability and analytics that never existed before in the digital world, the authors assert.
We have the ability to bring a new level of trustworthiness to the global economic system as well as society writ large. As a consequence, blockchain and A.I. are becoming the next supercycle and are the core of a really major societal transformation.
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