Character.ai Taps, former Meta Vice President of Business Products as CEO

Character.ai, AI Chatbot provider supported by Google with tens of millions of active monthly users, Declare Friday, Karandip Anand, former Vice President of Business Products in Meta, joins the company as CEO.

Previously, the advisers of the Board of Directors to the personality. Anan, Anand, the CEO of the CEO of the Chatbot provider, is trying to cultivate its platform simultaneously while combating the child’s safety fears. In recent months, she added a personality. AII is a set of new safety features in the light of an active lawsuit, which claims that one of the company chatbots She played a 14 -year -old boy in Florida.

Anand comes to forme.ai with experience in running advertising products that have reached billions of users on Meta applications. Previously, Anand was the head of the Microsoft Product Management, as it supervised the user experience on the cloud company platform, Azure. Recently, Anand held the position of President of Fintech Startup Brex.

Anand takes over the character. Google founded the founder and CEO of the startup company, Noam ShazeerWho had previously led Core AI teams at Mountain View Giant. At that time, Google also signed an unusual agreement to use craft technology.

Character.ai’s deal with Google was paid Federal organizers to investigate the relationship of companies On anti -relaxing concerns. It is one of the many reverse deals in the starting starting space that has received organizational audit, besides that Microsoft deal with INTOCTION.AI.

The character collected. Air is more than $ 150 million of project financing, largely from Andressen Horowitz.

In a blog post, Anand said that one of his first priorities is to make safety filters “less arrogant”. The new CEO indicated that the company is interested in the safety of users, but often, “the application is completely unacceptable.”

Anand also said he planned to improve the quality of artificial intelligence models on the Personal platform, innovate about memory features, and increase transparency about decision -making. He says that many of these features come in the next sixty days.

Chatbots is purely designed for entertainment, which specializes in personality, is increasing, growing in a huge market for the intriguing intimate intelligence – a direction that was surprising to many. In 2024, 66 % of the company’s users ranged between 18 and 24, and 72 % of the company’s users were women, according to data from Sensor.