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正在調整其策略，因其創始人離職去了Google（納斯達克:GOOGL）進行了一項價值27億美元的交易。
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.
發生了什麼: 臨時CEO多米尼克·佩雷拉表示，總部位於舊金山的初創公司現在將優先提升其消費者產品，特別是其流行的聊天機器人。 由於涉及的成本過高，該公司正在放慢開發大型語言模型的步伐，金融時報週三報道。
Perella explained, "It got insanely expensive to train frontier models... which is extremely difficult to finance on even a very large start-up budget."
佩雷拉解釋說：「訓練前沿模型變得非常昂貴... 即使是一個非常龐大的初創公司預算也極其難以融資。」
The company aims to leverage the traction gained by its consumer products.
該公司旨在利用其消費產品所獲得的動力。
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收購了Character.ai 20%的員工，並支付了27億美元以一次性許可啓動的模型。 該交易包括重新僱用聯合創始人諾姆·沙茲爾（Noam Shazeer）和丹尼爾·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的轉變反映了其他初創公司的趨勢，比如德國的Aleph Alpha，它們也由於成本過高而放棄了建立大型語言模型的雄心。
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."
佩雷拉仍然樂觀地表示：「我們正在繼續進行人工智能研究... 我們仍然擁有所有的技術，幾乎所有的員工，我們正在不斷增長。」
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.
爲什麼重要: Character.ai的創始人離開谷歌標誌着人工智能領域的重大轉變。 谷歌重新僱用了沙茲爾，這位以其在對話應用語言模型（LaMDA）上的工作而聞名的人工智能先驅。 沙茲爾於2021年10月離開谷歌，創立了Character.ai，並獲得了他的公司a16z的支持。 他回到谷歌是更廣泛合作的一部分，因爲谷歌與Character.ai簽署了一項非獨家協議，以利用其技術。
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This story was generated using Benzinga Neuro and edited by Pooja Rajkumari
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