Character.ai reaches 1.7 million installs

 

AI chatbot company Character.ai says it reached 1.7 million new installs within a week of launching.  The mobile version went live for iOS and Android on May 23.  The company claims users have created more than 10 million characters for chatting. The startup claims it reached 700,000 Android installs within the first 48 hours, with the trend continuing due to large amounts of users in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Brazil.  Character.ai was founded by Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, who previously built LaMDA models at Google. The company raised a $150M Series A in March led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing Character at $1B.