Congrats to Character.ai on its Agreement With Google

August 30, 2024

Our Character.ai story begins with meeting their founder/CEO Noam Shazeer back in our early Google years together, so it seems appropriate that Google appears again in this phase of our relationship! This time in the form of a strategic licensing agreement for the Character.ai technology.

As Character investors we’re thankful for the opportunity to have shared in what Noam and team created thus far, and as (legacy) Google shareholders from our previous employment, also happy to see him and parts of the team back at the company. It’s not often you’re on both sides of a transaction like this (well kind of), even in this small way.

Thank you Noam and onwards for Character.ai!!!