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character.ai blog
Company blog · blog.character.aiai
character.ai blog is the company blog at blog.character.ai, writing about ai. Since 2022, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Character.ai Entered into an Agreement with Google”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Character.ai's own blog for company announcements: the CEO's move to Disney, a press release on growth, safety measures after a lawsuit, and inference optimization work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
character.ai is where millions of people chat, roleplay, and create with AI Characters. Pick from millions of Characters made by the community, or design your own in minutes. Share them with the world
Most-linked posts?
- Character.ai Entered into an Agreement with Google2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-02
- Character.ai's CEO Karandeep Anand Is Joining Disney2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-18
- Character.ai Community Safety Updates2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-23
What Hacker News says?
”Character.ai’s CEO Karandeep Anand is joining Disney in a newly created role as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Karan expects to be joined by members of Character’s technical team to build on Disney’s impressive technology capabilities to help connect fans worldwide with its beloved stories and characters in new and innovative ways.” — https://blog.character.ai/the-next-chapter-of-ente…
Comment linking /the-next-chapter-of-entertainment-and-fandom/
on “Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy”Submitted Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a story · 337 points
HN discussionFrom Character.ai’s blog about safety measures they’ve taken since this law suit [1]: “Over the past six months (…) we hired a Head of Trust and Safety and a Head of Content Policy and brought on more engineering safety support team members.“ Better late than never, but not by much. It’s not like they didn’t think about investing in safety before launch, they just didn’t prioritize it, to the public’s (and their bra…
Comment linking /community-safety-updates/
on “Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit”Submitted Character.ai Community Safety Updates as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere’s their press release: https://blog.character.ai/our-next-phase-of-growth/
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on “Character.ai CEO Noam Shazeer Returns to Google”Submitted Character.ai's CEO Karandeep Anand Is Joining Disney as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThey weren't paying frontier rates. They had frontier-level staff to train their own bespoke, hyper-optimised[0] LLMs until they didn't. [0]: https://blog.character.ai/optimizing-ai-inference-at-charact...
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on “Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work”Submitted Character.ai Entered into an Agreement with Google as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis doesn't feel as much of a bellwether as I have seen celebrated than the cold fact that if you make it hard for teens to have relationships and sex with your chatbots [1], they will jump to the next boat. Character.AI has survived long enough to enjoy the squeeze in lawsuits, but the way users talk about these services always feels very much as fly-by-night as nudify apps: extract what you can, while you can, be…
Comment linking /an-update-on-changes-to-our-under-18-experience/
on “Character.ai files for bankruptcy, agrees to sell some assets for $20M”Submitted Character.ai shows how to reduce LLM costs by 13 times as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRight now there is (AFAIK) no world model product booking any meaningful revenue. So there's a decent chance WMs turn out to have no long-term utility at all. However, there are a few promising markets, assuming WMs continue to get better and cheaper: 1. Robotics training / evaluation : modern end-to-end (sensors-to-control) robot policies require simulators that are almost indistinguishable from reality. If your si…
Comment linking /character-ais-real-time-video-breakthrough/
on “SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video”Submitted Our Series A and our new AI model, C1.2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slonk: Slurm on Kubernetes for ML Research at Character.ai as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doubling Inference Speed at Character.ai as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Character Calls as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Character: A full stack Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) company as a story · 1 points
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