{"id":175848,"date":"2023-11-11T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/exclusive-google-in-talks-to-invest-in-ai-startup-character-ai"},"modified":"2023-11-11T14:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:31:38","slug":"exclusive-google-in-talks-to-invest-in-ai-startup-character-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/exclusive-google-in-talks-to-invest-in-ai-startup-character-ai","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Google in talks to invest in AI startup Character.AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-google-in-talks-to-invest-in-ai-startup-character-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nov 10 (Reuters) \u2014 Alphabet\u2019s <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/GOOGL.O\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">(GOOGL.O)<\/a> Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character. AI, as the fast growing artificial intelligence chatbot startup seeks capital to train models and keep up with user demand, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The investment, which could be structured as convertible notes, according to a third source, will deepen the existing partnership Character. AI already has with Google, in which it uses Google\u2019s cloud services and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to train models.<\/p>\n<p>Google and Character AI did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 10 (Reuters) \u2014 Alphabet\u2019s (GOOGL.O) Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character. AI, as the fast growing artificial intelligence chatbot startup seeks capital to train models and keep up with user demand, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters. The investment, which could be structured as convertible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}