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Character.AI
United States
- Menlo Park, CA
- 24/03/2023
- Series A
- $150,000,000
Developer of open-ended conversational applications designed to build dialog agents with a long tail of applications spanning entertainment, education, general question-answering, and others. The company specializes in neural language models, useful tools for imagination, brainstorming, language learning, and a host of other purposes, enabling users with dialog agents that are powered by proprietary technology.
- Industry Software Development
- Website https://beta.character.ai/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/character-ai/
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Noam ShazeerFounder
United States -
Palo Alto, California
I have invented much of the current revolution in large language models. Some of my inventions include:
• Transformer (2017)
(personally designed the multi-head attention, the residual architecture, and coded up the first better-than-SOTA working implementation)
• Sparsely-gated Mixture of Experts (2016)
• Mesh-Tensorflow (2018) - first practical system for training giant Transformers on supercomputers.
• T5 (2019)
• Major contributor to Google’s LaMDA dialog system, a project led by Daniel De Freitas, my now co-founder at Character AI.
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