After Google's $2.7B Acquisition Of Founders And Staff, This AI Startup Abandons Large Language Model Plans And Shifts Focus Away From Chatbots
After Google's $2.7B Acquisition Of Founders And Staff, This AI Startup Abandons Large Language Model Plans And Shifts Focus Away From Chatbots
The company aims to leverage the traction gained by its consumer products.Character.ai is pivoting its strategy following the departure of its founders to Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) in a $2.7 billion deal.
Character.ai正在调整其策略，因其创始人离职去了Google（纳斯达克:GOOGL）进行了一项价值27亿美元的交易。
What Happened: Dominic Perella, the interim CEO, stated that the San Francisco-based startup will now prioritize enhancing its consumer products, particularly its popular chatbots. The company is stepping back from developing large language models due to the high costs involved, Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
发生了什么: 临时CEO多米尼克·佩雷拉表示，总部位于旧金山的初创公司现在将优先提升其消费者产品，特别是其流行的聊天机器人。 由于涉及的成本过高，该公司正在放慢开发大型语言模型的步伐，金融时报周三报道。
Perella explained, "It got insanely expensive to train frontier models... which is extremely difficult to finance on even a very large start-up budget."
佩雷拉解释说：“训练前沿模型变得非常昂贵... 即使是一个非常庞大的初创公司预算也极其难以融资。”
The company aims to leverage the traction gained by its consumer products.
该公司旨在利用其消费产品所获得的动力。
In August, Google acquired 20% of Character.ai's staff and paid $2.7 billion for a one-off license to the startup's models. The deal included rehiring co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas.
今年8月，Google收购了Character.ai 20%的员工，并支付了27亿美元以一次性许可启动的模型。 该交易包括重新雇用联合创始人诺姆·沙兹尔（Noam Shazeer）和丹尼尔·德弗雷塔斯（Daniel De Freitas）。
Character.ai's shift mirrors other startups like Germany's Aleph Alpha, which have also abandoned ambitions of building large language models due to prohibitive costs.
Character.ai的转变反映了其他初创公司的趋势，比如德国的Aleph Alpha，它们也由于成本过高而放弃了建立大型语言模型的雄心。
Perella remains optimistic, stating, "We're continuing to do AI research... We still own all of our technology, have almost all of our people and we are continuing to grow."
佩雷拉仍然乐观地表示：“我们正在继续进行人工智能研究... 我们仍然拥有所有的技术，几乎所有的员工，我们正在不断增长。”
Why It Matters: The departure of Character.ai's founders to Google marks a significant shift in the AI landscape. Google rehired Shazeer, an AI pioneer known for his work on the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Shazeer left Google in October 2021 to launch Character.ai, which gained backing from his firm a16z. His return to Google is part of a broader collaboration, as Google signed a non-exclusive agreement with Character.ai to leverage its technology.
为什么重要: Character.ai的创始人离开谷歌标志着人工智能领域的重大转变。 谷歌重新雇用了沙兹尔，这位以其在对话应用语言模型（LaMDA）上的工作而闻名的人工智能先驱。 沙兹尔于2021年10月离开谷歌，创立了Character.ai，并获得了他的公司a16z的支持。 他回到谷歌是更广泛合作的一部分，因为谷歌与Character.ai签署了一项非独家协议，以利用其技术。
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