Micro dramas are such a rage these days that almost every kind of company in the attention economy space — be it dedicated micro drama apps, social media giants (TikTok and Instagram), or streaming services (Peacock, Amazon Primeand India’s JioHotstar) — creates a product to take advantage of the opportunity.
Character.AI, which lets people chat with custom AI avatars, is also tapping into this nascent market by producing its own micro-dramas using AI characters. But there’s an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company’s core product: Users over 18 can chat with characters from these shows, ask them questions, and even play different roles.
The startup is launching three micro-dramas to begin with: a romance series called “Last Summer,” a horror show called “The Nighttime Game,” and a Hunger Games-like survival micro-drama called “Eden Fall.”
Character.AI says these dramas were created using artificial intelligence production tools, and in the long run, it aims to help users create their own characters and series.
“Starting with a studio model, the c.ai series allows our production team to develop the format, refine the workflow and understand what audiences want from Character-native Microdrama entertainment. Over time, the goal is to turn these insights and workflows into creator tools, enabling users to make their own series of original characters and share them with a global audience.”
This is the latest in a series of recent features from the startup after it shifted to entertainment-focused features last year. In April, he teased a tool called Lorebook that users can use to create world building information that characters may refer to and started another feature called Books and allows users to be introduced to or role-play as characters from selected classic literature titles.
The company said Thursday it is also testing a feature, called c.ai FM, that will let users compose audio sequences, and another that lets you create fiction, called c.ai Reads. The audio series feature is currently available to select users as part of the c.ai Labs experimental program, which the company says professional writers use to create serialized audio dramas.
There is definitely an audience for this form of entertainment. Users spent more than 950 minutes on Character.AI each month in the first half of 2026, according to Sensor tower.
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